Word: mendelssohn
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Salt Lake Tabernacle (Sun. 11:30 a.m., CBS). Choir and organ in sacred music by Bach, Handel, Mendelssohn...
Mozart: Salzburg Serenades (Chamber Symphony Orchestra, Edvard Fendler conducting; Vox, 8 sides). The small orchestra, clambering delightfully through divertissements by the youthful Mozart, sounds like a baroque music box. Vox, a new firm recording rarely heard classics, is owned by George Mendelssohn, the composer's great-great-grandson. Performance: good...
Added to the primary ingredients in the current opus are: Lauritz Melchior as a tubby (what else?), good-hearted-but-tending-to-be-grouchy-at-first baritone; long (vintage 1900) skirts; an opera rustled up by California technicians from odd bits of orchestral music by Lizst and Mendelssohn and sung patently in English; Peter Lawford as a timid male debutant who calls a girl "darling" because it turns out she can speak Greek; and many others of lesser note...
...arranger and two lyricists set to work. From Mendelssohn's Ruy Bias Overture and the slow movement of the Violin Concerto in E Minor they pasted together a scene in an "opera" they billed as Marie Antoinette; from Liszt's Les Préludes, Hungarian Rhapsody No. 14 and Liebesträume they contrived another called My Country. Sample lyrics...
...film credits ("operatic sequences adapted from Liszt and Mendelssohn") were worded so as neither to rouse the knowing nor disabuse the ignorant...