Word: schwanda
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...called Artists in Need, Inc., which helps poor Austrian exiles. Among the conductors who put 65 New York Philharmonikers through a waltzy whirl were Ralph Benatzky (White Horse Inn), Robert Stolz (Two Hearts, Spring Parade in the movies) and a courtesy-Viennese, Jaromir Weinberger, famed Czech polka-&-fugue man (Schwanda der Dudelsackpfeifer, Variations and Fugue on Under the Spreading Chestnut Tree...
...King himself joined in with a right royal will (see cut). Weeks later the newsreel reached a small cinema theatre at Juan-les-Pins on the French Riviera. In the audience was a jumpy, pink-eyed little Czech composer named Jaromir Weinberger, world-famed for his lilting opera Schwanda der Dudelsackpfeifer. Composer Weinberger was much struck. Said he: "I liked this whole scene very much and I said to myself: 'This is the theme for which you, Jaromir, shall write variations and a fugue...
...Soprano Marisa Merlo. so flip on the stage that audiences might not guess that she once nearly got herself to a nunnery; roly-poly Basso Alfred Hollander, once of the able German Theatre in Brunn, Czechoslovakia; Baritone Leo Weith, who sang the title role in the world premiere of Schwanda der Dudelsackpfeifer; Tenor Franco Perulli, onetime protege of Tenor Tito Schipa...
...Bohemian fairytale, Schwanda, a bagpipe player, was a perfect antidote for boredom. He melted Queen Ice-Heart who would have married him if his wife Dorota had not appeared with her carpet bag, demanding explanations. He put new life into the Devil who, before Schwanda visited him, was reduced to playing solitaire and reading Hell's tabloids...
...Manhattan the opera Schwanda der Dudelsackpjeijer (Bagpipe-player) made a Metropolitan Opera audience forget last week how bored it had become with the idea of new operas, few of which survive more than one or two seasons. Not even a middle-aged Wagnerian (Baritone Friedrich Schorr), who endeavored to impersonate swaggering Schwanda by oc- casionally skipping across the stage, seemed to dim the happy effect that Czech Composer Jaromir Weinberger got with his sophisticated scoring of a theme song on life and barnyard noises, a rollicking polka, a noisy, oldtime finale. In Europe Schwanda is the best-selling modern opera...