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...with his halo of light hair, makes him look like an erect, dandified David Belasco out of the age of inno- cence.* Philadelphia's Academy of Music stage was set in this fashion last week for the U. S. premiere of Gurrelieder, a choral-symphony by Austrian Arnold Schonberg, most extreme of all musical extremists. No fewer than 532 persons were required to give it: 400 choristers from the Princeton Glee Club, Philadelphia's Fortnightly Club and the Mendelssohn Club; an orchestra of 125 pieces, six soloists and Conductor Stokowski, for whom there appears to be no musical...
...important prima donna has music composed expressly for it. German Kurt Weill wrote the cantata Lindbergh's Flight for radio performance (TIME, April 13). Last week the first radio opera, Malpopita, was given in Berlin?the work of Composer Walter Goehr, a follower of Ultramodernists Franz Schrecker and Arnold Schonberg...
Most U. S. school children would be hard-put to get much meaning out of Composer Weill's terse, telegraphic music which echoes the cacaphonies of Schonberg and Hindemith, or to sing for themselves the difficult cross-grained choruses which the Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia managed so expertly last week. The words, however, are simple enough for the youngest intelligence. Excerpts from Composer George Antheil's translation, modified slightly for last week's performances...
...five years the talk of Europe. Not a singer but Conductor Leopold Stokowski is bound to be the hero of the occasion. Conductor Stokowski's enthusiasm for unusual stage productions was evidenced last year by his performances of Stravinsky's ballet, Le Sucre du Printemps and Schonberg's pantomime. Die Glückliche Hand.* But Wozzeck will be his first straight opera, the forerunner of others to be done with the Philadelphia Grand Opera Company next year...
April 22-Performance of Stravinsky's Le Sacre de Printemps and Schonberg's Die Gluckliche Hand, by League of Composers and Philadelphia Orchestra under Stokowski; at Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan...