Word: tristan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...romantic turn of mind. In the four great works which make up "The Ring", for which as in his other operas he himself wrote the librette, he sets forth, for example, his idea of an idyllic state of society not dissimilar to that of Shelley's "Promethens Unbound". In "Tristan" he brings his reading of Schoppenhauer to its logical and extreme conclusion. All in all, the figure of Wagner is gigantic not only in music, where he is supreme, but also in literature where he looms large in the field of the drama being without much doubt the greatest German...
...story parallels Wagner's Tristan and Isolde?a king, a vassal sent a-wooing. The first scene disclosed King Eadgar's (Lawrence Tibbett's) banquet hall, its rough-hewn table boards, trophies of woodland kills, crude spears, armor: discloses also the royal widower's conceit to take a second wife. Aelfrida, daughter of the Thane of Devon, famed for beauty, is in his mind. With Saxon stolidity, however, he withholds decision until assured that the lady, whom he has never personally inspected, merits her reputation. On the errand of verification and summons (if justified), he despatches his loyal foster-brother...
...murder of a drunken patron; Katiusha, proud of her sordid conquests, begging money of the man who would reclaim her soul and then-a new Katiusha, who, renouncing him with three symbolic kisses of the Russian Easter, shouldered a pack to follow a fellow convict into Siberia. Tristan and Isolde, laid away for several seasons now, was brought out for the debut of Elsa Alsen, a very worthy Isolde. Rigoletto had its turn, Il Trovatore, a Sunday matinee of Carmen, the second week opening with Lucia. Chicagoans were well-pleased-with the first week list and the singers, with...
...seat. Wagner's back itched. Princes? Metternich nodded, smiled, as from the orchestra swelled forth great chords, low symphony. Wagner sat tense-slumped down aghast, ashamed at whistles, catcalls, boos, hisses. Princess Metternich sobbed. Wagner went to Vienna, since Germany had exiled him. Again, Prince Metternich, please. . . Tristan und Isolde was accepted, rehearsed 57 times, abandoned-the tenor was incompetent. Vexed, Wagner produced Der Ring des Nibelungen. King Ludwig of Bavaria gazed on that pageant with vacuous wondering eye. He was no fool. Even Frederick the Great had bent the knee to Voltaire. Ludwig would have Wagner...
Tonight's Pops Concert program at Symphony Hall is as follows: First Slavonic Dance Dvorak Overture, "Fingal's Cave" Mendelssohn Waltz, "Artist's Life" Strauss Fantasia. "Carmen" Bizet Snite from "The Seasons" Tehaikovsky a. April: "Snowdrops" b. June. "Barearolle" c. November. "The Troika" Love-Death from Tristan and Iside" Wagner Serenade Pierne Twelfth Hungarian Rha; sody Liszt Overture to "Mignon" Thomas Entracte Valse Hellmesberger Charge of the Hussars Spindler