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...Boston musicians will render for the opening number Prokofieff's "Classical Symphony" Cp. 25. This will be followed by D'Arcy's "Symphonic Variations from Isiah Op. 42" and Ravel's "Rhapsodie Rapatele". Next on the program will be and "Lieheated" from Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde". The Overture to "Tannhauser" will conclude the program...
...performance of Tristan und Isolde last week drew the biggest crowd of any Tristan in the history of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera Company. Contralto Doris Doe, a native of Bar Harbor, Maine, made her debut as Brangane, Isolde's henchwoman. But she was not the magnet. It was Goeta Ljungberg, tall, blonde Swedish soprano who arouses more & more enthusiasm each time she sings (TIME, Feb. 1). Her Isolde last week was not a heroic, leather-lunged creature to be heard over all the brasses. It was vocally uneven. But it was an Isolde deeply personal and finely imagined...
When Composer Italo Montemezzi wrote L'Amore dei Tre Re, Poet Sem Benelli provided him with a libretto which cried for music of exquisite passion and tenderness. The fact that parts of it recall the music of Tristan & Isolde never seemed important. Montemezzi's score has surge and spontaneity of its own, enough to arouse high hopes for his one-act La Notte di Zoraima (The Night of Zoraima), given its U. S. premiere last week at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House...
...minutes, while Tristan raved, U.S. listeners waited. From their radios came substitute music. Atmospheric conditions were not yet right. Then, amid buzzings and squawkings, came Tristan's voice and the shepherd's pipings which tell him that Isolde's ship is in sight. Although the orchestra (under Conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler) was less clear than the singers, reception improved during the last 20 minutes. Best voice was that of Basso Josef Manowarda (King Mark). Others: Tenor Gotthelf Pistor (Tristan), Soprano Nanny Larsen-Todsen (Isolde), Baritone Rudolph Bockelmann (Kurvenal...
...Tristan bit was followed three days later by an hour-and-a quarter program from the Mozart Festival at Salzburg, Austria: the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra under Conductor Bruno Walter (who will conduct Manhattan's Philharmonic-Symphony next winter) in an all-Mozart program; and part of a promenade concert at Queen's Hall, London, under Conductor Sir Henry Joseph Wood. Clearer than NBC's first program, this one was not relayed but picked up by short-wave and re-transmitted. Symphonic-minded radiauditors were pleased. Heretofore radio policy had been to keep programs short...