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...hand the true tone of all those Busby Berkeley production numbers. No subsequent recordings of the songs quite recapture the tinny excitement of the original scoring as it was caught by primitive sound systems. But the record devoted to the work of the music department heavies-Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Max Steiner and Franz Waxman-stirs the sweetest nostalgic pangs. Only by hearing in isolation the sweeping romanticism of Korngold's Sea Hawk score or the brooding march Steiner used to drive the prospectors toward The Treasure of the Sierra Madre can one realize how much the music contributed both...
...Hawk, the Classic Film Scores of Erich Wolfgang Korngold (National Philharmonic Orchestra of London, Charles Gerhardt conducting; RCA, $5.98). In the days when almost everyone loved Hollywood for its epic swashbucklers, almost everyone in Hollywood loved Erich Wolfgang Korngold for his epic, swashbuckling film scores. Starting in 1935 with Captain Blood, Korngold pretty much set the pattern-virtuoso tone poems that reinforced character with melodic motif, heightened situation with orchestral effect and commented relentlessly on just about everything taking place on screen. Such gems as The Constant Nymph, Kings Row, Juarez, Anthony Adverse and The Sea Hawk followed...
...these and more are handsomely recorded on this LP under the supervision of Korngold's producer son George. The record is also the only stereo document currently available of a composer who was one of Europe's most brilliant prodigies half a century ago. When Korngold was 13, Artur Schnabel was playing his piano sonata in Vienna and Berlin. Four years later Conductors Bruno Walter and Otto Klemperer were doing his orchestral works. In 1921, when Korngold was 24, his opera The Dead City was mounted at the Metropolitan Opera, and legendary Soprano Maria Jeritza made her debut...
...airport aboard a special El Al plane.* Israelis traditionally bury their dead in shrouds, but these were too burned and broken. Deputy Premier Yigal Allon presided in place of Golda Meir. For the Premier, who is 74, the tragedy was compounded by the death of her older sister, Sheineh Korngold, 83, who emigrated from Milwaukee to Israel with her 51 years...
...destiny. At 39, she is the New York City Opera's prima donna and clearly ranks as one of the two or three finest coloraturas in the world. At the New York Phil harmonic Promenade Concert, she sings a selection of Viennese arias and songs by Kalman, Korngold, Mozart and Richard Strauss, displaying a faultless voice that sweeps with elaborate embellishments to feathery, accurate high notes. The audience goes wild and demands an encore. From Santiago, Buenos Aires, Vienna and London come frantic pleas for concerts. Backstage, greeting her well-wishers, Beverly sings the obligatory arioso...