Word: liebestod
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...chose three songs by Norway's Composer Edvard Grieg, followed by Isolde's Liebestod from Tristan and the last scene from Götterdämmerung. At the end, the international audience rose and shouted for a full five minutes while Kirsten Flagstad curtsied and smiled with tears in her eyes...
...Mood. Manhattan concertgoers were just in the mood for what the quartet had to offer. (Says one quartet member: "You wait four hours at the opera for the Liebestod; we give it to them right off the bat.") And when the four boys had romped cleanly and lightly through their special arrangements of such numbers as Schubert's Impromptu in B-flat Major, the finale of Prokofiev's Classical Symphony, the first movement of Bach's Concerto in D Minor and some Chopin études -one to show that four pianos can ripple as fast...
...their meals, there was a dance. Word went up from the Führerbunker to make less noise. At 3:30 p.m., Hitler and Eva Braun committed suicide, he by shooting, she with poison; their bodies were carried outside to the garden and burned. It was a horse-opera Liebestod, enacted to the crash of Russian shells and robbed of its Wagnerian grandeur by a curious anticlimax: those remaining in the bunker lit up cigarets. "During Hitler's lifetime that had been absolutely forbidden; but now the headmaster had gone and the boys could break the rules...
Boston Symphony Esplanade Concert (Tues. 8:30 p.m., ABC). The Frescobaldi-Kindler Toccata, Wagner's Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde, Liszt's Concerto in E-Flat, Delibes' Procession of Bacchus from Sylvia. Conductor: Arthur Fiedler...
...Flat, which he turned into Till the End of Time. It was the best-selling jazz record of 1945.* Taking Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 apart, he extracted Ever and Forever from the first movement, and Full Moon and Empty Arms from the third. He rewrote the Liebestod from Wagner's Tristan und Isolde and called it Time Stands Still. He converted Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf into Dingbat the Singing Cat and is now waiting for When I Write My Song (from Saint-Saens' aria My Heart at Thy Sweet Voice) to make...