Word: leyssac
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Dates: during 1928-1928
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...soloists who will appear with the combined clubs will be Ethyl Hayden, soprane, and Tuder Davies, tenor. Paul Leyssac of Eva Le Gallienne's Civic Repertory Theatre in New York City, will perform the part of the narrator, a part similar to the narrator in "Oedipus...
...Boston Symphony came last week to Manhattan-with Serge Koussevitzky for conductor, Contralto Margarete Matzenauer, Tenor Tudor Davies, Baritone Fraser Gange for soloists, the Harvard Glee Club for a Chorus, and Speaker Paul Leyssac. This combination gave, as it did a fortnight ago in Boston (TIME, Mar. 5), the Œdipus Rex of Igor Stravinsky. Even the ablest critics sometimes disagree. Said Samuel Chotzinov (the World): ". . . a desperate attempt at a musical interpretation of lofty cosmic tragedy . . . a presumptuous drive with nothing of any consequence to back...
...soloists who will appear with the combined clubs will be Ethyl Hayden, soprano, and Tudor Davies, tenor. The narrator, who takes a part similar to that in "Oedipus Rex" will be Paul Leyssac of Eva Le Gallienne's Civic Repertory Theatre in New York, who was the narrator in M. Koussevirzky's production of that opera oratorio...
...most luckless victim. Jean Cocteau took the Greek, made a text of it for Stravinsky, gave it to Monsieur J. Danielou who put it into Latin. In Latin, then, scorning all theatrical device, Stravinsky presented his (Edipus. He had a speaker (in Boston last week it was Paul Leyssac), to tell the story step by step. He had specific soloists-Charles Hackett for (Edipus, Margaret Matzenauer for Jocastá, Fraser Gange for Tiresias-and the Harvard Glee Club for his chorus. But they wore only conventional concert dress. They were forbidden to do any business, or to create any illusion...
February 25-"Readings from French Plays", M. P. Leyssac, actor...
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