Word: ops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like Artur Schnabel, he no longer bothers to practise with any regularity. He claims he did plenty of practising in his youth to last him all his life. Mr. Hofmann's favorite avocation is inventing mechanical gadgets. Sonata Op. 53 (Waldstein) Beethoven Kreisleriana (Six movements) Schumann Polonaise in E flat minor Nocturne in B major, Op 9, No. 3 Mazurka in B flat minor Ballade in F minor Chopin Orientale, Op. 10, No. 2 Stojowski Moment Musical in F sharp minor, Op. 94, No. 3 Schubert-Godowsky Elude in C sharp minor, Op 2 Scriabin Kaleidoscope, Op...
...politics. He is soundest in his estimates of older statesmen and most informative in his reminiscences of personal contacts with World War generals. But as Author Churchill approaches the present his passionate conservatism leads him increasingly astray from accepted opinion. He defends as a "forlorn" patriot the opèra bouffe Boris Savinkov (prerevolutionary Russian spy who worked both for the Tsarist police and for Nihilists, reported on each to the other and had to maintain card files to keep his machinations straight); represents the fun-loving, light-witted Alfonso XIII of Spain (chiefly notable during his reign...
...been hired to conduct the world premiere of Don Juan de Manara, a bloodthirsty opera differing widely from Mozart's Don Giovanni, which he had composed for the late Arnold Bennett's libretto. He had succeeded in combining with his own company the Paris Grand Opera and Opéra-Comique. Colonel de Basil's Ballet Russe had been billed to dance. Metropolitan Opera participants included Kirsten Flagstad, Gina Cigna, Kerstin Thorborg, Lauritz Melchior, Lawrence Tibbett, Giovanni Martinelli, John Brownlee. The Coronation season was to last eleven weeks instead of the usual six. Yet in London last...
...Royal Highness became the first Crown Princess, and possibly the first woman, to broadcast the news that she is expecting a child. This Juliana did with becoming Dutch delicacy in these words: "Nooit had iets mij kunnen weerhouden alle deelen van het programma mee te maken, waren het niet-op zichzelf verheugende-gezond-heidsredenen geweest, die u zeker wilt verstaan en billijken." ("Nothing would ever have kept me from enjoying every detail of the festive program with which you have welcomed us to Amsterdam had it not been for reasons of my health-in themselves joyful-which you certainly will...
Covent Garden is grateful to Sir Thomas, for managing what should be its most successful opera season. For the first time in their history the Paris Grand Opera and Opéra-Comique will assist there. Metropolitan participants alone include Kirsten Flagstad. Gina Cigna, Kerstin Thorborg. Lauritz Melchior and John Brownlee as well as Tibbett and Martinelli. Sir Thomas once lost ?1,000,000 of his own in opera. Aloof, disdainful, he ignores summonses and hotel bills, brings audiences to their feet when he leads the London Philharmonic, estranges them when he calls Britons the most unmusical people...