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Tenor Althouse sang first. He wore a conventional cutaway but was supposed to be Waldemar, King of the Danes in the 14th Century, hero of a cycle of poems by Danish Jens Peter Jacobsen. Waldemar loved Tove (Soprano Vreeland) with a deathless love, kept her in a castle at Gurre near Elsinore where royal Hamlet lived. Softly, exquisitely the strings described their passion for one another. Then Helvig, Waldemar's shrewish wife, lad Tove killed. A wood dove (Contralto Bampton) told the tragedy, how Tove's heart was still and the King's own heart strong still...
...nberg pupil, used with the same wailing effect in Wozzeck (TIME, March 16, 1931). Piccolos had a prominent part in this last orchestration, done ten years after the first. The strings had difficult chromatics to flurry through. But it never got noisy or jarring, never lost sight of Tove's tender love theme. Over the radio Stokowski said that Gurreliede was unlike most modern music in that it was simple, direct, easy to grasp on a single hearing. If in Vienna Composer Schonberg was listening he perhaps resented such homely praise. He started Gnrrelieder when...