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...Jean de Reszke, Anton Seidl, of Toscanini-and Wagner was indeed a Titan. There came the War, and German singers, German music were in disfavor, but Wagner grew even in exile. His operas crept back into the repertoire one by one until Lohengrin had arrived, Tannhäuser, Tristan, Meister singer, the four Ring operas-Rheingold, Walküre, Siegfried, Götterdämmerung-and the valedictory Parsifal. Today enthusiasm has reached the pitch where box-office plenty is direct sequel to the announcement of special Wagner matinees...
...most German work. It may well be questioned whether it will ever be worthwhile to translate it-so much of art in language can hardly be transcribed into a foreign tongue. And yet it would be interesting to see how it would appeal to a foreign audience, this "Wilhelm Meister" among Thomas Mann's works, this most comprehensive part of his "great confession...
Last week, after almost 20 years, the Metropolitan produced Mignon again. The lyric is based, of course, on Goethe's sentimental play, Wilhelm Meister. Mignon, nobleman's daughter, had long been held captive by gypsies. But she dimly remembers her home. This memory grows intense after she meets dazed Lothario, who really is her father, gone daft. Sportive Wilhelm Meister she grows to love, and flirting Philene she hates. Marion Talley, adequate as Philene, showed progress as an operatic actress. Lucrezia Bori, who sang Mignon last week kept merry an audience of 4,000, many of whom...
...lagoon 240 feet wide filled by water from the Great South Bay, canals flowing under pile-set villas, a fleet of gondolas imported from Venice, a huge swimming pool-these were the particulars of a Long Island real estate scheme announced last week by the Meister Builders, Inc. The site has been chosen, a 365 acre tract at Lyndhurst and Copiaque...
...program follows: 1. Coronation March Svendsen 2. Overture to "Orpheus" Offenbach 3. Fantasia, "La Boheme" Puccini 4. Harvard Glee Club with Orchestra (a) A Dirge for Two Veterans Holst (b) Laudate Dominum 5. Excerpts from "The Meister-singers", Act III Wagner 6. Hymn to the Sun Rimsky-Korsakov 7. Second Hungarian Rhapsody Lisst 8. Harvard Glee Club (a) Fire, Fire, My Heart Morley (b) Russian Folk Songs Song of the Life Boat Men (Soloist J. E. Mitchell 1L.) Fireflies At Father's Door (c) Bedouin Song Arthur Foote 9. Ballet Suite, "Coppelia" Delibes 10. Serenade Pierne 11. Cruiser Harvard Strube