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When a group of highstrung American Legionnaires in Dallas heard that Mezzo-Soprano Jennie Tourel was scheduled to be soloist in the cantata Alexander Nevsky, a eulogy to a 13th Century Russian patriot, they stirred up civic feeling against the lyrics. Everybody was happy after the word "Russians" was changed to "people," "Russian soil" to "fertile soil," "Russian valor" to "native valor...
...whom the power of music has given the spirit of eternal youth." Pope Pius XII sent his apostolic benediction. From the speaker's table in a ballroom of Manhattan's Ritz-Carlton Hotel last week, Bruno Walter, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Georges Enesco, Nathan Milstein and Jennie Tourel all rose to add their tributes to the refrain. Finally a towered cake with 75 candles was carried in. While more than 400 guests stood and applauded and a string ensemble played his own Liebesfreud, white-haired old Violinist Fritz Kreisler got to his feet to blow out the candles...
Bright & Bubbling. The festival was not merely a Dutch exposition. Jennie Tourel, perhaps the finest Carmen now singing, gave a performance in the role. The polished Vienna State Opera gave a bright and bubbling performance of Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio, and was scheduled to perform Don Giovanni, The Marriage of Figaro, and Der Rosenkavalier before the festival ends next week...
Last summer, Hindemith thought he had finally approached his ideal. Manhattan's New Friends of Music asked famed Mezzo-Soprano Jennie Tourel to give the new Marienleben its first performance. Jennie, as good as they come in skill and agility of voice, took a run over the score and gulped. Even after revision, the score was the most difficult Jennie had ever seen. But, she says, she couldn't shake off the beauty of Rilke's poems and the challenge of Hindemith's powerful music. With Pianist Erich Itor Kahn, she worked on it, finally, after...
Last week, an audience in Manhattan's Town Hall got to hear the music that had become "a real labor of love" for both Mezzo Tourel and Composer Hindemith. Incandescent with devotional power and warmth, much, if not all, of Das Marienleben made far easier listening this time. Most listeners found it "noble music" indeed. Japed Jennie, tired, but flushed and excited by the music and the ovation: "Let's go back on and do it again...