Word: rossignol
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...voice has in some ways improved. She sang well as the mechanical bird in Stravinsky's Le Rossignol. She piped prettily through Mignon. But her big music has been little, the real art of singing something she has never seemed to grasp...
...Rossignol, fairy opera in one act and three scenes, by Igor Stravinsky, followed La Vida Breve, made two U. S. premieres in a single afternoon at the Metropolitan. The story was adapted from the tale of Hans Andersen?a fisherman paddling his boat, drawing his nets, hears the nightingale; the Emperor hears it, so does his Bonze, so does his cook, who finally persuades it to come and live at court. Japanese ambassadors come bringing the Chinese Emperor a mechanical nightingale, and the stupid, stupid courtiers, forgetting their own perfect nightingale, applaud the artificial one, and the real bird flies...
...Manuel de Falla's La Vida Breve, Spontini's Vestale (a work much admired by Wagner, which established Spontini's reputation in France in the early 19th century), Gioudano's La Cena delle Beffe, adapted from the play The Jest, and Stravinsky's Le Rossignol. He raised the price of seats: ground floor, $8.25 from $7.70, "dress" circle $4.95 from...
...following tentative program will be used throughout the trip: March: Front Section, Bagley The Morning: from Peer Gynt Suite, Grieg Wang Wang Blues: Specialty Piccolo Solo: Chanson du Rossignol, Filipovski W. F. Manning '22. Pianologues Selected Sidney Reinherz. Fifty Symphony: Andante Cantabile, Tschaikowsky (Second Movement) Songs, Selected University Band Quartet. At Krazy Kat's Ball, Harvard Specialty Orchestra J. H. S. Moynahan, Dances. Drum Specialty, W. L. Olmstead '22, S. B. Clark '22. Harvardians. Soldiers Field. Our Director. Fair Harvard...
...pieces will play, with six violins and 'cellos. The program is as follows: 1. March, "Front Section," Bagley 2. Overture, "Light Cavalry," Von Suppe 3. "Morning," First Movement from "Peer Gynt Suite," Grieg 4. "The Faery Opera," from "Hansel and Gretel," Humperdinck 5. Solo for piccolo, "Chant du Rossignol," Filipovski W. F. Manning, '22. 6. Selection, "La Boheme," Balfe 7. Specialty. J. H. S. Moynehan Sp. 8. Harvard Songs: Soldiers Field. Harvardiana. Our Director...