Word: retablo
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...sense, this exhibition is an impossible task: you cannot boil down so vast a visual culture and ship it to a museum, especially when so much of the essential evidence consists of immovable buildings and their ornament. One silver altar frontal or a gilded retablo, no matter how impressive in itself, cannot possibly duplicate the devotional frenzy of incrustation that gives Mexican Baroque its special character, any more than a few Chacmool figures and feathered serpents can convey the impact of the step pyramids, ramps and avenues of Chichen Itza or El Tajin...
...intended. Since the harpsichord seems to have a definite place musically, it is strange that modern composers in their search for new colors and mediums have not attempted to write for it, except in a very few instances (De Falla's Concerto and his puppet-opera El Retablo de Maese Pedro, for example), It will be interesting in the future to see whether this instrument will take its place again as a medium of the expression of the time, or will remain only a means of reawakening the music of the past...
...beginning on Oct. 31, 12 Thursday afternoon and 12 Friday evening concerts, 6 Saturday afternoon concerts for young people and 5 Saturday morning concerts for children. Under Dr. Damrosch six new works by six composers of six different countries will be played: De Falla's marionette opera, El Retablo de Maese Pedro, Sibelius' Tapiola, Casella's Scarlatina, Honegger's Phaedre, Ernst Hallfter's Spanish Suite, a symphony by Austin George Antheil, Milhaud's Ballad for Piano and Orchestra. Soloists will be Ernestine Schumann-Heink, Efrem Zimbalist, Alfred Cortot, Albert Spalding, Paul Kochanski, Rudolf Laubenthal...
...wedding festivities, sings the warm, fragrant gypsy melody that won him first, dies of grief when he repulses her. On such an old, old story, unfattened by dramatic detail, the young De Falla wrote his opera, years before he was capable of El Amor Brujo or El Retablo de Maesa Pedro,** before he had any real understanding of the theatre, when music of one kind or another was all the same to him?simple, lovely, languorous. Lucrezia Bori, herself as black-eyed, as Spanish as any Spanish gypsy girl, was Salud?lovely, languorous, like De Falla's music...
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