Word: rabaud
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...over innocent, crotchety Dr. Muck, turned the orchestra's management over to a board of directors, died a year later. Many of the orchestra's best players had been deported as "enemy aliens." In turn, two more acceptable but less capable French conductors, Henri Rabaud and Pierre Monteux, strove vainly to regain the lost ground. A strike, supported by the American Federation of Musicians, though won by the management, further depleted the orchestra's ranks. But by 1924 the Boston Symphony, recovered from its wartime jitters, was being reorganized for a comeback. Soon it was back...
When Composer Henri Rabaud made an opera out of the 959th of the 1,001 Arabian Nights, he clothed it in music gay, elaborate and Oriental. The fact that parts of it recall Rimsky-Korsakov never seemed to matter. A good-natured plot and attractive sets helped make Marouf popular at the Paris Opera-Comique. The opera had eleven performances at the New York Metropolitan between 1917 and 1920. Though Composer Rabaud meant his lead to be a tenor, Baritone Giuseppe de Luca always sang the role at the Metropolitan. Last week the spring company resurrected Marouf...
...rich merchant, makes a monkey of the Sultan of Khaitan and marries the Sultan's daughter. Chamlee first took the part nine years ago at Ravinia Park (Chicago), later in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Lille and Brussels. When he arrived to sing his first Marouf in Paris, Composer Rabaud kept him up till 3 a.m. going over the score, called him a "delicious interpreter...
...Madama Butterfly. There were to be seven more performances, all sung by a distinguished troupe but none of them novelties. Most memorable event of the season, about which San Franciscans were still talking and laughing, had come with the opening night. Mârouf, by French Composer Henri Benjamin Rabaud, was the opera. Opulently oriental, with an Aladdin-like plot out of the Arabian Nights, it was first performed in Paris in 1914, is pleasantly modern, sleekly and gracefully orchestrated. In it sang tall, reedy-voiced Soprano Yvonne Gall and Tenor Mario Chamlee who used to be Archer Ragland Cholmondeley...
...Sergei Koussevitzky is due 100% credit for the Boston Symphony's present excellence. Seven years ago it was in sorry state. Frenchmen Henri Rabaud and Pierre Monteux, successors to the maligned Karl Muck,? had proved incapable. The directors were appraising all the availables in Europe when they came upon a Russian exiled in Paris. They traced his history: at 12 he had been chef d'orchestre in the theatre of his native town (Tver in North Russia), composed whatever music was required for the plays and conducted the entr'actes. At 14 he went to Moscow to study, chose...