Word: tristan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Still, the famous Balcony scene is wholly enchanting, both aurally and visually. It is night, of course; and for Romeo and Juliet, as for Wagner's Tristan and Isolde, night is blissful and day abhorrent. "But, soft! What light through yonder window breaks?" As Juliet turns on her bedroom light, the odylic moment is underlined by some light tracery on a flute. Juliet appears in a white nightgown, sinks on her knees, spreads her elbows on the balcony to support her head, and lets the light catch her soft, blond tresses--all girlishly, but never awkwardly. The rest...
...spill from Author Loeb's pages like unstuck pictures from a family album. There was Ezra Pound, "dressed like one of Trilby's companions" in "black velvet jacket and fawn-colored pants"; James Joyce, dour and uncommunicative on everything but French provincial cooking (he loved it); and Tristan Tzara, the papa of Dada, leading his esthetic Bolsheviks with a wave of his monocle...
...these and other writers, certain themes can be traced directly to their Biblical and classical origins. A course which treats those ideas in Job, Tristan and Isolde, and Ecclesiastes recurrent in later works would be a valuable addition to the present catalogue...
...took over the listless Philharmonic in 1943. Considering himself hamstrung by management, he stormily quit the nation's top orchestral job four years later, went to Chicago, where, after a year of feuds with management, he was fired. Freelance since then, Rodzinski triumphed last year with a brilliant Tristan und Isolde at Florence's Maggio Musicale. This autumn he returned for the first time to Chicago, made silk-purse magic with the Lyric Opera's orchestra (TIME...
Rodzinski opened his return visit with a performance of Tristan and promptly scored a triumph that recalled his now legendary performance of the same work with Kirsten Flagstad and the Chicago Symphony eleven years ago. This time Rodzinski was hampered by scant rehearsal time and by the fact that the Lyric Opera's orchestra is a competent but far from first-rate pickup group. But he kindled a performance of ravishing warmth and coloration, better by far than anything previously heard from the Lyric Opera's pit. With Soprano Birgit Nilsson as Isolde, Tenor Karl Liebl as Tristan...