Word: libretto
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...KING'S HENCHMAN-Edna St. Vincent Millay-Harper ($2). Libretto for "the greatest U. S. opera...
...matter of fact, this is the play which Composer Taylor set to music. To fit the music Miss Millay had later to modify her lines to libretto form...
...soon after exposure. Some were independent experiments, brilliant in spots, dull on the whole. An opera requires musicianship but it fails without the accompaniment of theatre. So Signor Gatti-Casazza selected the creators of the Henchman. Edna St. Vincent Millay, poetess with a dramatic sense, was to write the libretto (TIME, Jan. 17); Deems Taylor, composer of concert music, onetime music critic of the N. Y. World, would provide the score...
...reports were carried on the front pages of the press. Miss Millay's libretto was superb: "sensible and singable," quaintly flavored. Only the gum-chewers' Daily News, whose music critic signs herself "Debutante," found the opera lacking in distinction. She falsely announced: "Alas! Those who came . . . may not have scoffed but they certainly did not remain to pray...
Intermezzo's libretto, based on personal spats seldom so openly revealed, will cause some shrugging of shoulders, some sharper comment. Those who question the taste of such autobiography forget, possibly, that the world left him poor while he was creating some of its richest musical treasure; that publishers kept him whistling in the outer offices with immortal compositions grasped in numb fingers; that critics derided when first he wore his heart on his sleeve; that such experiences leave strange marks on sensitive natures...