Word: marienleben
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...minutes during the Bach Society Orchestra's concert Saturday night, it was difficult to remember that a chamber orchestra was playing in Paine Hall. The sonorous climaxes of three songs from Hindemith's "Marienleben" sounded forth with all the intensity and power of a full symphony. Disregarding the question of propriety, it was an astonishing demonstration of the virtuosity of the orchestra and its conductor, Michael Senturia...
Miss Aspinall, who has taught at Juilliard and Vassar College, will perform Schubert lieder and excerpts from Hindemith's song cycle "Das Marienleben." She will be accompanied by Robert Middleton...
...however, glimpsed "the ideal of a noble music, as nearly perfect as possible, that I should some day be able to realize . . ." Since then, pudgy Composer Hindemith has stolen minutes and hours from other composition (and more lately from his duties as a professor at Yale) to perfect Marienleben. He rewrote some songs as many as five times, reworked individual passages as much as 20, strengthening and humanizing the vocal line...
Last summer, Hindemith thought he had finally approached his ideal. Manhattan's New Friends of Music asked famed Mezzo-Soprano Jennie Tourel to give the new Marienleben its first performance. Jennie, as good as they come in skill and agility of voice, took a run over the score and gulped. Even after revision, the score was the most difficult Jennie had ever seen. But, she says, she couldn't shake off the beauty of Rilke's poems and the challenge of Hindemith's powerful music. With Pianist Erich Itor Kahn, she worked on it, finally, after...
Last week, an audience in Manhattan's Town Hall got to hear the music that had become "a real labor of love" for both Mezzo Tourel and Composer Hindemith. Incandescent with devotional power and warmth, much, if not all, of Das Marienleben made far easier listening this time. Most listeners found it "noble music" indeed. Japed Jennie, tired, but flushed and excited by the music and the ovation: "Let's go back on and do it again...