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Wake Up and Dream. Charles B. Cochran, the British Ziegfeld, is quite as resourceful as his U. S. compeer. The music, for instance, which accompanies his latest revue is by a trio consisting of Johann Sebastian Bach, Maurice Ravel and that infectious zoologist, Cole ("Let's Do It") Porter who used to lead the Yale Glee Club. A tune by the late great Bach is intoned during a dance entitled "Gothic'' in which two girls named Tilly Losch and Ann Barberova strike attitudes marvelously reminiscent of medieval sculpture and stained glass. To the threnodies of Ravel...
...great poet Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller conceived the character of Luisa Miller, made her the unhappy heroine of his play Kabale und Liebe. Italian Poet Salvatore Cammarano fashioned the opera libretto from the Schiller piece, aptly labeled the acts Love, Intrigue, Poison. The scene is in the Tyrol. Luisa, a beautiful peasant, loves Rodolfo who turns out to be the son of the village's haughty overlord. He would forbid their marriage, arrest Luisa and her doting father. But Rodolfo, Hamletwise, knows of the murder which won his father his titles and his wealth, threatens him with exposure...
Musical: THE LITTLE SHOW, HOT CHOCOLATES, SWEET ADELINE, A WONDERFUL NIGHT (Johann Strauss's Die Fledermaus score), BITTER SWEET, SONS O' GUNS, FIFTY MILLION FRENCHMEN...
Musical: FOLLOW THRU, THE LITTLE SHOW, HOT CHOCOLATES, SWEET ADELINE, BITTER SWEET, A WONDERFUL NIGHT (for Johann Strauss's score?Die Fledermaus...
...these things the late Don Francisco Aguilar knew. He had once made a study of the lute and its literature. He was further aware that Johann Sebastian Bach had written for it, that Georg Friedrich Handel as late as 1720 had made a part for it in his Esther. He remembered, too, that a Granadan. Baltasar Ramirez, had been the greatest lute virtuoso in 16th Century Europe; that the art of lute playing had supposedly died in 1790 with the German Christian Gottlieb Scheidler. Hence he listened with a peculiar appreciation to the music of the blind man. He went...