Word: lullabye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Prokofiev: Oratorio, Op. 124 (Choirs and State Orchestra of the U.S.S.R. conducted by Samuel Samossoud; Vanguard). Prokofiev's latest (1950) composition to reach U.S. shores. The message is the expected and politic one of the clear skies and a bright future, but there is plenty of drama in the...
"Miss Traubel's wonderful voice." one critic wrote, "has helped to heal the wounds of seven unpleasant years." In Tokyo, Crown Prince Akihito attended, asked for the Brahms Lullaby and got it. In Osaka, a Japanese opera singer rushed up to thank her. announced with invincible Japanese courtesy: "Now...
Music in the Air. In Birmingham, civil defense officials decided to install more air-raid sirens after a test alert was drowned out in Loveman, Joseph & Loeb's department store by a set of chimes playing Brahms's Lullaby.
Three Soviet propaganda themes rose above the hullabaloo: 1) the old Russian lullaby cooing that Moscow seeks "unity with the peace-loving peoples everywhere"; 2) a nostalgic German love song urging the reunification of East and West Germany "under the leadership of ... the mighty Soviet Union"; 3) a war chant...
Berg developed his own unique "song-speech," with notes at definite pitches which are neither exactly sung nor spoken. But he could write beautiful melody too, most notably the lovely lullaby Marie sings to her child. Overall, Wozzeck has a sardonic, contorted quality, but one that is clearly the work...