Word: korngold
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fresh and wholly likable comedy by the best comic writer, for the screen or otherwise, whom the U. S. has yet produced. Directed by William Keighley, acted by Warner Brothers' most high-powered cast since Midsummer Night's Dream, staged by Robert Lord and scored by Erich Korngold, it should amply grace next fortnight's Coronation. It should also grace, if not climax, the careers of two amiable young actors from Peoria, Ill. who, among Hollywood's currently swollen quota of remarkable children, are perhaps the most remarkable...
...cinema, and it contains one scene of cinema's first original grand opera-a balcony scene from a work called Romeo & Juliet of which only a few skeleton scenes were ever written. All the music except a short interpolation from Il Trovatore was composed by Erich Wolfgang Korngold, whose Violanta and Dead City have been given at the Metropolitan and who arranged the Mendelssohn score for Warner Brothers' Midsummer Night's Dream...
Nine years ago in Vienna a stocky young tenor with wonderful teeth arched his stout chest into the high notes of a Korngold opera, The Miracle Of Heliane. Since then Jan Kiepura has risen to fame in European screen operettas...
...poetry which is the play's chief virtue, the screen version still contrives to run too long (2½ hr.). Nonetheless, by grace of Hal Mohr's magnificent photography, which makes the backgrounds far more effective than any stage set could ever be. plus Composer Erich Wolfgang Korngold's brilliant arrangement of the Mendelssohn score, and the indestructibly entrancing spirit of the play itself, which is perfectly recaptured in some of the scenes in the wood near Athens. A Midsummer Night's Dream becomes definitely worth seeing, both as a work...
Under the auspices of the Longy School of Music, the Chardon String Quartette is presenting on Wednesday evening, December 19, a program of chamber music which includes numbers by Goossens, Sibelius, and Korngold. In the latter suite, Paul Wittgenstein, distinguished one-armed Viennese pianist, will be the accompanying artist. The concert will be held at Brattle Hall at 8.30 o'clock. Tickets may be procured at the Longy School on Church...