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Among the big figures of the modernist musical movement, many, including Stravinsky, Schönberg, and Prokofieff, are today writing a much milder and more melodious type of music than they were in modernism's heyday. In a current article in Musical America Atonalist Ernest Krenek sighed for the good old days of musical revolution. Wailed Composer Krenek: "Moderns are saying atonality is passe. Most contemporary music is reactionary...
...summer of 1934. Our rebellion was against conventional opera, conventionally produced and enslaved by the star system. Our hope was to introduce the arts of the theatre into opera from which they have been divorced, these many years, all over the world. Toscanini, Klemperer, Stefan Zweig and Ernst Krenek listened to our declarations. A proclamation of artistic independence was drawn up and subscribed to by these men. They all signed it. and Toscanini remarked: 'Nothing is ever being done for the real opera-only words, never action. But perhaps,' he added with a smile, 'this will...
...This week the Guild gives the first professional performance in the U. S. of L'Incoronazione di Poppea, an antique forerunner of modern opera, composed by Claudio Monteverdi and given its debut in Venice in 1642. The work has been reconstructed from its fragmentary original score by Ernst Krenek, best known in the U. S. for his jazz opera Jonny Spielt Anf, and as conductor of the Monteverdi work making his first visit...
...Princess and the Frog King" (Overture, "Si j'etais Roi")Adam Has Wiener an Dance Group "The Street Dancers' ("Blues") Krenek Hans Wiener and Kay Pope "The Butcher, the Baker, and the Candlestick Maker" Strauss ("Night in Venice," Overture) Hans Wiener and Dance Group Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square...
...Wagner *"Der Rosenkavalier," Waltzes Strauss Schumann *Traumerei "Maximilian Robespierre," Overture Litolff *"Nell Gwyn," Suite German *Large from the "New World" Symphony Dvorak *First Hungarian Rhapsody Liszt *"The Princess and the Frog King" (Overture, "Si j'etais Roi") Thomas Hans Wiener and his Dance Group "The Street Dancers" ("Blues") Krenek Hans Wiener and Kay Pope "The Butcher, the Baker, and the Candlestick Maker" ("Night in Venice," Overture) Strauss...