Word: orchestras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Soprano Gorman piped prettily as the ingenuous young heroine. But in spite of Eugene Goossens' deft conducting, there was many a time when it was impossible to hear her over the big Wagner orchestra. Generous Cincinnati critics credited her with having made a promising start in opera. Newshawks made much of the facts that she had once won a bathing beauty contest (in 1929), when she was a high-school student in Bessemer, Mich., that she had twice been invited to join the Follies. Such publicity found little favor with the Gorman family which comes from proud old Gloucester...
...music if they are not straining to catch every word that is sung. Most translations are inept, a handicap to real enjoyment. In the first act of Madame Butterfly it is obvious to any onlooker that Pinkerton is making love to Cho-Cho-San. Curving melody flows from the orchestra while he sings, "Just like a little squirrel are all her pretty movements." To many Tristan would seem foolish delivering a literal translation of his part in the exalted love duet. The music would be reaching its grandest climax while he would be singing, "Thou Isolde, Tristan I. No more...
Operatic comedies have had the most success in translation. The Cleveland Orchestra has given praiseworthy performances of Die Fledermaus and The Secret of Suzanne in English. Philadelphia excelled with Falstaff and The Marriage of Figaro last winter. All children want to understand the words when they go to Hansel and Gretel, a fact recognized years ago by the touring San Carlo Company...
...determined to make his way in the world. At 16, as a surveyor on the Alaska Railroad, he earned enough to get to Princeton where he paid his way by working in a Ford service station. At Princeton (Class of 1925) he made much of music, led the University orchestra, wrote for Triangle Club shows, became president of the Glee Club. After graduation he won two music fellowships, made music his living...
...shared with "The Seeing Eye," showing how German shepherd dogs are trained to lead the blind; "Mexican Idyl," a Musical Mood in technicolor, and Fox Movietone News. And then, at 12.45 every day this week, there is to be heard the Shostakovitch Symphony No.1, recorded by the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Leopold Stokowski...