Word: mendelssohn
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...Heroine is despondent. She sits at the window of her drab abode, contemplating suicide. The organ of the cinema house plays Tchaikovsky's Pathétique or something equally lugubrious and appropriate. But, hark! A knock on the door! The organist changes quickly into some gay lilt by Mendelssohn. It is the Hero, or a telegram from him, just in time. The Heroine does not leap to her death. Everything ends happily-in the movies. Now that the "talkies" have come, you can actually hear that situation-saving knock on the door. And nowadays the organ music...
...wonderful for its massive tonal quality than for its artistic brilliance was the singing of the 4,000. The roof that has often reverberated with mass advice to fisticuffers, bicycle riders, marathon dancers, reverberated that night with the more melodious, even louder tones of such old-time favorites as Mendelssohn's "On Wings of Song," Bohm's "Calm as the Night," Elgar's "Land of Hope and Glory." Reinald Werrenrath soloed "Danny Deever" until tears rolled down many a cheek. Then he sang "On the Road to Mandalay," assisted in the chorus...
Cincinnati, May 7-11, Biennial May Music Festival, Frederick Stock musical director; Cincinnati Symphony and such soloists as Florence Austral, Schumann-Heink, Paul Althouse, Dan Beddoe, Lawrence Tibbett in such works as Mendelssohn's St. Paul (oratorio), Bach's Magnificat, and a Wagner program...
Spartanburg, S. C., May 14-15, 34th annual Music Festival at Converse College. Programs will include Mendelssohn's cantata, Walpurgis Nacht. Soloists: Georges Barrere, Louise Lerch, Dorothy Flexer, Gina Pinnera, Frederick Jagel...
...produced on the Soviet stage. Last week this edition was brought out by the Oxford University Press and announced for its first performance outside of Russia by Leopold Stokowski, enterprising maestro of the Philadelphia Orchestra (see below). He plans performances in Philadelphia and Manhattan with the assistance of the Mendelssohn Choir and eminent soloists to be announced. Moussorgsky wrote in 1872: "While I was writing Boris, I was Boris." Revival for Boris thus meant resurrection for the "debauched, defeated" composer whose madness of yesterday is the modernity of today...