Word: orpheus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pomp and Circumstance"Elgar *Overture to "Orpheus in the Underworld" Offenbach *Minuet from the String Quintet Boccherini *Suite, "Peer Gynt" Grieg "Tales from the Vienna Woods," Waltzes Strauss *"The Mastersingers of Nuremburg," Introduction to Act III Wagner *Second Hungarian Rhapsedy Liszt Two Indian Dances Skilton Song with Orchestra--"Fallen-Leat" (Sioux Prayer Melody) Logan Chief Ho-To-Pi, Indian Tenor "Sipapu," Ritualistic Indian Dance Hadley Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square
...Tickets sold with a rush in Moscow last week as music-loving comrades lined up to buy seats for "the City of Cleveland's Orpheus Male Choir with Claudia Muzio, Richard Crooks, Richard Bonelli and Lawrence Tibbett." When it appeared that the old Soviet ruse of advertising performers who were not even in Russia to spur ticket sales was being worked again, the State Trust for Musical, Stage & Circus Entertainment not only disclaimed all responsibility but blamed Moscow newspapers for not at once detecting and exposing the fraud. "Persons with even rudimentary knowledge," observed the State Trust, "would know that...
...Radcliffe Choral Society's singing of the delightfully naive, yet technically intricate madrigal, "The Nightingale," of Weelkes, and in the "Arkansas Traveler," more than made up for a rather drab and mechanical interpretation of a Gluck chorus from "Orpheus...
...Architect Eliel Saarinen invited Sculptor Milles to teach and work at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in pleasant, rolling Bloomfield Hills, near Detroit. There Carl Milles created his huge Orpheus fountain which many of his admirers consider the greatest of his great work.* Milles modeled an Orpheus descending from Heaven, his lyre resting on his left shoulder, his right hand plucking its invisible strings. Directly beneath Orpheus a stylized Cerberus is about to doze off into careless sleep. Around the rim of the fountain nude figures are arrested in various postures by the strains of Orpheus' music. A very...
...Orpheus fountain, water will spurt up as high as the knees of Orpheus. Dripping lines of water from the teeth of Cerberus will harmonize perpendicularly with the legs of the figure. Human torsos representing shades in Hades have been carved into parts of the angular unsymmetrical base. When the fountain works they, like the dead, will seem to float in the mists of another world...