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...chamber orchestra. It was a taxing assignment for the soloist and Miss Lunn showed signs of strain near the end of the program. Her voice is by no means powerful and her approach to the music is restrained and undramatic. The opening of the secular cantata Weichet ner, betrubte Schatten, for example, dragged on quite feebly and missed altogether the suggestion of mysterious forces of nature at work during the changing of the seasons...
...seemed only mildly impressed, the applause was almost perfunctory. True, the music had its passages of Strauss lyricism, and Conductor Clemens Krauss made the most of them. But the score bore little resemblance to the lilting Rosenkavalier or the passionate Salome: it was closer to the allegorical Frau ohne Schatten or Die Aegyptische Helena of the composer's later years, and it sometimes made unreasonable vocal and emotional demands on the singers. Its story, a retelling of how Jupiter wooed the nymph Danae, was a hodgepodge of myth and fiction...
...Symphony (Sat. 6:30 p.m., NBC). Radio premiere of Richard Strauss's Fantasy on Die Frau Ohm Schatten...
...choice for the part. A soprano prodigy ("In my cradle I had tones") she sang Aïda at the Vienna State Opera Company when she was 18. Four years later Strauss heard her sing Rosenkavalier. He put her into the leads in Elektra, Die Frau ohne Schatten...
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