Word: smetana
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...Smetana: Vltava ("The Moldau") (Bruno Walter conducting the New York Philharmonic-Symphony; Columbia; 3 sides). Scenic ride, well recorded, on the Czech river...
...Robert Schumann, Bedrich Smetana, Edward MacDowell, Hugo Wolf died insane...
...Herr Walter conducted the Met's only opera-in-English: Smetana's The Bartered Bride. This was no victory for the vernacular; it seemed tactless to sing it in German, as has been done in the past, and no one but the soprano, Jarmila Novotna, could sing in the opera's native Czech...
...Philadelphia's Academy of Music, the young, hard-working Philadelphia Opera Company hit the stride of its third season with a performance in English of the best-known Czech opera: Bedŕich Smetana's The Bartered Bride. Managed by tall, lean C. David Hocker, musically directed by short, swart Sylvan Levin, the Philadelphia troupe has 22 singers, average age about 27, all but one homegrown. The simple fooleries of The Bartered Bride, set to simple, polka-dotted tunes, showed off some notable young talent: Basso Luke Matz (music supervisor in the Unionville, Pa. public school...
...Smetana: Quartet No. I ("From My Life") (Curtis String Quartet; Columbia: 7 sides) and Dvořák: Sextet in A Major (Budapest String Quartet, with John Moore, second cello, and Watson Forbes, second viola; Victor: 8 sides). Polka-dotted nostalgia by old Bohemia's greatest composers; the Dvořák for the first time on records...