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...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...
...wonderful things with his left hand. A year later he gave his second Vienna concert and his prestige spread throughout Europe. Since then Leopold Godowsky and Moritz Rosenthal have made many of his arrangements. Besides last week's Concerto, original music has been written for him by Erich Korngold, Sergei Prokofief, Richard Strauss...
...When Soprano Maria Jeritza made her Metropolitan Opera debut in Erich Wolfgang Korngold's Tote Stadt, Manhattan was scoured for a "property" lute called for in the book. No lute could be found; a guitar was used instead...
...opera was Korngold's Tote Stadt, the first given in German after the War. The curtain was five minutes late and the Metropolitan curtain is never late. Patrons wondered. None knew the fault was the new soprano's, so frightened backstage that no sound would come from her throat. She ate some pineapple. She crossed herself once, ten times. Manager Gatti whispered encouragement. The curtain went up and Jeritza made her debut. With her singing and her acting she was a sensation...