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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...
...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...
...bygones, but on the contrary crowded with hopes for the future. It was tangibly marked by an ambitious program in which the Cleveland Orchestra under Conductor Nikolai Grigorovitch Sokolov and a company of players were to present as symphonic dramas Charles Martin Loeffler's Pagan Poem, Henri Rabaud's Procession Nocturne and Werner Janssen's New Year's Eve in New York...
...dances from "Marouf" by Rabaud suffer in concert presentation. Their oriental monotony becomes occidental monotony, and the contrast they make to the rest of this charming opera cannot be realized. True there are some extremely clever orchestral effects, but the ballet and settings are felt to be lacking. The highly contrapuntal climax does not "sound" through with the clarity of the rest of the opera. "Marouf" has been performed in its entirely in New York, and at the Opera Comisue in Paris...