Word: korngold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, Jascha Heifetz and the New York Philharmonic-Symphony gave the Korngold concerto its first Manhattan hearing in Carnegie Hall...
Hollywood had been good to Erich Wolfgang Korngold. But was Hollywood good...
...Reinhardt brought Korngold to the U.S. in 1934 to arrange Mendelssohn's Midsummer Night's Dream music for the screen. Since then Korngold has written some of the movies' best music, won two Oscars (for the scores for The Adventures of Robin Hood, Anthony Adverse). Currently cinemagoers can hear his passionate cello concerto winding and whining through Bette Davis' Deception...
Like many high-paid Hollywoodians, Erich Korngold, now a plump and unpressed 49, wondered whether he could still write music that would stand alone. Most movie music sounds banal when played in concert halls.* Composer Korngold took a summer off to write a violin concerto...
...Yolanda Mero-Irion's New Opera Company (TIME, Nov. 9, 1942), Helen Goes to Troy has a revised book and a slightly altered cast of Olympians, including a seminude Venus who really earns her apple. The melodic champagne of its original score has been spiked (by Composer Erich Korngold) with heady draughts from a dozen other Offenbach operettas, including the Barcarolle from Tales of Hoffman. Its Helen is sung by chestnut-haired Czech . Soprano Jarmila Novotna, one of the few opera stars who can fill the eye as well...