Word: sordidly
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When Wozzeck was given in Philadelphia four winters ago, conventional operagoers shuddered at its dissonances, stamped Composer Alban Berg as a stark ultra-modernist who had little regard for beauty. Wozzeck's story was sordid. Its music was an enigma to many, though none denied its power. For six years in his home in Vienna, Composer Berg has been working on a second opera, Lulu. Boston had the first U. S. taste of it last week when Sergei Koussevitzky conducted five symphonic excerpts...
...story from Nikolai Leskov, a long-dead author who made his murderess a fiend incarnate. Shostakovich read of her crimes and promptly forgave her. Poor Katerina Izmailova! He would continue to call her Lady Macbeth but audiences were to understand that she was an innocent victim of her sordid bourgeois surroundings...
...seen on the stage last week, the home of Katerina Izmailova is sordid indeed. It resembles a crude two-story dolls' house with one side missing. Upstairs in a dreary bedroom Zinovi, the merchant, sleeps sluggishly with his boots on while downstairs Katerina, his wife, broods on a couch, paces the floor. She cannot sleep. She has never been taught to read. Her lecherous, spying old father-in-law comes in to charge her with being as cold as a cold fish to her spouse. Because of her there is no heir to the Izmailov name. The puling Zinovi...
Said Republican National Chairman Fletcher: "No such shameless use of public funds to influence elections can be found in the most sordid annals of our municipal politics...
Youngest but one of five brothers, Don Gelasio fled the incredibly gloomy and sordid palace of the stingy Caetani in Rome to graduate from Columbia University's School of Mines in 1903 as "Mr. Gelasio Caetani." He then became a "wop" digging gold in Idaho for John Hays Hammond. "Knowledge of my origin," said Prince Caetani afterward, "would have spoiled my camaraderie with my fellow miners...