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...Sacre du Printemps (" Rite of Spring" ). Executors of the event were the League of Composers, prime promoters of modern music, and Conductor Leopold Anton Stanislaw Boleslaw Stokowski who, with his Philadelphia Orchestra, is an institution unto himself. As companion piece or curtain-raiser was given Composer Arnold Schönberg's Die Glückliche Hand (" Hand of Fate...
...Gluckliche Hand. Nerves were so atingle from the sheer physical force of Le Sacre that when the brief perform-ance was over many had almost forgotten Die Glückliche Hand, the curtain raiser. Yet like the Sacre the Schönberg piece can be counted as experimental music. It is pantomime opera, takes only a little more than 15 minutes to perform. Its subject is a simple one: a man in the pursuit of happiness is constantly thwarted by fate in the person of an elusive woman. Schönberg created only one singing character-the Man, harrowingly played...
Stokowski. It was fitting for Stokowski to be the first conductor in the U. S. to undertake the difficult stage productions of Le Sacre and Die Glückliche Hand. The unfurbished music of Le Sacre had its U. S. introduction by him in 1922. Schönberg's dissonances have fascinated Stokowski so strongly that he has persisted in presenting them despite the boos and hisses of audiences rarely given to such frank demonstration...
April 22-Performance of Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps and Schönberg's Die Glückliche Hand, by the League of Composers and the Philadelphia Orchestra under Stokowski; at Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan...
Composer Weill and Librettist Bertolt Brecht are both 30-three years older than Hero Lindbergh. Weill, a pupil of Busoni, a follower of Debussy, Schönberg and Hindemith, is a prolific young man. In 1926 his Royal Palace was a sensation at the Berlin Opera. The Protagonist and The Czar Allows Himself to Be Photographed are recent one-act operas based on books by Georg Kaiser. Brecht, called "the German Kipling," is best known for his Die Hauspostille, a book of realistic ballads. The Lindbergh Flight will be broadcast when performed. Friends of the flyer say he will certainly...