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...Even in Ernst Krenek's Jonny Spielt Auf, presented last year at the Metropolitan Opera House (TIME, Jan. 28) and before that in many a European capital, there was much discussion because Hero Jonny is supposed to be a black-face comedian. The Metropolitan authorities worried about letting Basso Michael Bohnen wear full, realistic black-face makeup, thought perhaps his neck should show white to reassure prejudiced observers. At the dress rehearsal the neck was white. It looked so absurd that at the performance it was blackened like the face...
Less atonal in its harmonies but in spirit akin to Composer Ernst Krenek's much- discussed Jonny Spielt Auf, the bathroom opera's subject matter is a farcical treatment of divorce. The soprano's opening song becomes a duet when a man, employed by her husband to provide divorce grounds, enters the room. The duet becomes a trio when another feminine guest of the hotel comes in to demand the use of the bath. Finally the noise grows so loud that all the employes stream in. The finale is exciting, uproarious...
Young Germany sees the U. S. singing. Composer Ernst Krenek chose a U. S. Negro jazzer for his Jonny Spielt Auf. Another modernist, Kurt Weill, has found inspiration for a new cantata in the Lindbergh flight. Written for the July Festival in Baden-Baden, a drowsy watering place in the Black Forest which has found itself the seat of radical musical experiment, the composer also intends The Lindbergh Flight for radio consumption. The cantata was publicly described last week for the first time...
...composed in 1774) Mozart Overture, "Fingal's Cave" Mendelssohn Spring Song of the Robin Woman, from "Shanewis" Cadman Silhouettes (Poem by Oscar Wilde) Slonimsky New England Sketches MacDowell To a Wild Rose--From an Indian Lodge--From Uncle Remus Music Box Liadov Fantasy from the opera "Jonny spielt auf" Krenek...
Like a Broadway musical show, jazz rhythms set listeners' feet a-tapping. But appearances to the contrary, Jonny Spielt Auf* is no ordinary musical show, no Ziegfeld nor Dillingham production. Rather it is the notorious jazz opera of Ernst Krenek, 28-year-old Austrian, and it was presented last week by the august Metropolitan Opera Company with such important singers as Basso Michael Bohnen for Jonny, Tenor Walter Kirchoff for Max, Baritone Friedrich Schorr for Daniello, Sopranos Florence Easton for Anita, Editha Fleischer for Yvonne her maid, and Artur Bodanzky conducting...