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...Douglas Moore's Gallantry: A Soap Opera, produced at Columbia University's Brander Matthews Theater, is a tuneful romp through the world of the daytime TV serial. The libretto by Arnold Sundgaard picks up "another chapter in Gallantry, the true-time story of hope and folly," at the point where a married doctor is pursuing his beautiful nurse, who in turn is in love with one Donald Hopewell. The nurse discourages the doctor with a wallop ("Touché, Miss Markham; I deserved that"), and the etherized Donald is saved just as the doctor is about...
...composer with a predilection for American subjects, Moore chose a hard story of Norwegian pioneers in Dakota Territory. Arnold (Down in the Valley) Sundgaard carved a three-act libretto from Norwegian-born Novelist O. E. Rolvaag's Giants in the Earth...
...than a giant of the stage. There was quality to it. Composer Moore's tuneful and tonal music had authentic American flavor and a good opera's share of excitement and tension. Where it let down was in sharp delineation of character; unhappily, that was just where Sundgaard's libretto let down...
Down in the Valley, a one-act "folk opera" by Composer Kurt Weill and Librettist Arnold Sundgaard, had become a sensational hit on the campus theater circuit all over the U.S. Written a year ago, it had already had some 80 separate productions. Last week its latest one was the biggest hit in the three-year history of Manhattan's zestful Lemonade Opera company...
Everywhere I Roam (by Arnold Sundgaard & Marc Connelly; produced by Marc Connelly & Bela Blau) is a hymn to the soil. It begins 100 years ago in a sort of prairie Garden of Eden. The toiling farmer drips with honest sweat, his steadfast wife brings him cool water from the spring, and Johnny Appleseed moseys by, planting apple trees...
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