Word: sung
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course the music is the spice, or rather, the sweetening of the evening. Waltz compositions of both the Strausses are played and sung at well-spaced intervals but occasionally they become syrupy. The musical comedy starts with the Radetsky March and ends with the climactic The Beautiful Blue Danube, played by the younger Strauss to an enraptured audience at the fashionable Dommayer beer garden. As the orchestra plays and the audience dances, the happy singing announces that Vienna has acclaimed a new waltz king, worthy successor of his own father...
...next year. In 1934 she wrote the checks for Fritz Reiner's beautiful, expensive Tristan, his Rosenkavalier that critics called the best U. S. opera of the season. Last week operagoers from all over the East headed again for Philadelphia's Academy of Music to hear sung in English two one-act premieres* that had cost...
...Morlaix' 12th-Century Rhythm of the Celestial Country. The oratorio was full of magnificent solos and broad, romantic melodies, showed unmistakably the young composer's German training. After a great success in the U. S., Hora Novissima became, in 1899, the first U. S. work ever sung at the Three Choirs Festival in Worcester, England. Three years later Cambridge University made him a Doctor of Music...
Pious, energetic Dean Eldridge, who had never before written a hymn, set his words to the "Ode of Joy" from the Ninth Symphony of Beethoven, directed it be sung "with exultation." First stanza...
...first two recitals will be held with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the selections being sung coming from the "Faust" symphony of Liszt. The Brooklyn Academy of Music will be the scene of the first appearance Friday, and on Saturday afternoon they will sing at Carnegie Hall...