Word: sch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...savage Sacre du Printemps (" Rite of Spring" ). Executors of the event were the League of Composers, prime promoters of modern music, and Conductor Leopold Anton Stanislaw Boleslaw Stokowski who, with his Philadelphia Orchestra, is an institution unto himself. As companion piece or curtain-raiser was given Composer Arnold Schönberg's Die Glückliche Hand (" Hand of Fate...
...Gluckliche Hand. Nerves were so atingle from the sheer physical force of Le Sacre that when the brief perform-ance was over many had almost forgotten Die Glückliche Hand, the curtain raiser. Yet like the Sacre the Schönberg piece can be counted as experimental music. It is pantomime opera, takes only a little more than 15 minutes to perform. Its subject is a simple one: a man in the pursuit of happiness is constantly thwarted by fate in the person of an elusive woman. Schönberg created only one singing character-the Man, harrowingly played...
April 22-Performance of Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps and Schönberg's Die Glückliche Hand, by the League of Composers and the Philadelphia Orchestra under Stokowski; at Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan...