Word: schwanda
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...Toscanini) has championed more modern opera than any other man in Germany. He directed the premieres of Austrian Alban Berg's Wozzeck (five years before Stokowski gave it to Philadelphia), Frenchman Darius Milhaud's Cristophe Colomb (written to the libretto of French Ambassador Paul Claudel), Czech Jaromir Weinberger's Schwanda, scheduled for performance at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera next year. It was Kleiber's enterprising programs, as well as his sound musicianship, which won him a reengagement for next vear with the Philharmonic...