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...knotty problems have kept Nazi theoreticians in a perpetual dither. "Aryan" Composer Richard Strauss's operas have escaped the ban, though several of his most successful (Die Schweigsame Frau, Der Rosenkavalier, Elektra) have librettos by Jews. Also unbanned, and of Jewish authorship, are librettos of "Aryan" Composer Franz Lehar's operettas (The Merry Widow, et al.). Carmen, a perennial favorite in German opera houses, was written by French Composer Georges Bizet, who is generally credited with some Jewish blood. Kulturkammer authorities got around this difficulty by officially "Aryanizing" Bizet. Although music by such Jewish composers as Mendelssohn, Mahler...
...unique individual rather than the social type Ibsen meant her to symbolize, thus helps transform the play from an outmoded indictment into a moving character study. As Nora's complacent spouse, Dennis King, hero of operettas, farces and romantic dramas, plays Ibsen as well as he sings Lehar and Friml. For all of Torvald's prissy traits, Actor King makes him pitiable in his final, bewildered defeat. Back from playing the ancient High Lama in Hollywood's Lost Horizon, Sam Jaffe is expertly repulsive and yet appealing as Nils Krogstad, the blackmailer who gets Nora...
...Rain deferred the opening of the Detroit Symphony's free concerts on Belle Isle. When the series finally began last week the temperature fell to nearly a record low for July. Nevertheless, 1,500 people stayed for a concert of Mendelssohn, Saint-Saëns, Leoncavallo, Lehar. Because donors had provided about $35,000, Manager Murray Gordon Paterson was able to promise a full six-week season, running every night but Monday. Hungarian Victor Kolar, associated with the Detroit Symphony since 1919, was newly back from Europe and planned to conduct the whole series. At a later concert...
...Franz Lehar is not only a Hungarian; he is a Rotarian. The best of this gifted sexagenarian's melodies-lyrically proclaim his Magyar background. The Lehar melodic line at its best is marvelously cunning, fresh, deceptive. It climbs like a lark to clear heights, then swoops down and off in a breathtaking, unexpected course...
...sublimation of Gypsy passion and Teutonic sentiment. But Herr Lehar is also a businessman who runs a theatre in Vienna and takes seriously his affiliation with Rotary International. The great majority of his best scores were written more than a decade ago and this does not prevent him from selling them over & over along with inferior latter-day creations. That Frederika-a perfunctory, old-fashioned operetta about the life & loves of Goethe which was first produced seven years ago-does not come up to the stratospheric standards of such earlier Lehar work as The Merry Widow (1905), is a loss...