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...program for tonight follows: "Le Tombeau de Couperin," suite for orchestra Ravel Sarabande and Dance Orchestrated by Ravel Debussy Rapsodi Espagnole Ravel "Scheherazade," three poems for voice and orchestra, to the verses of Tristan Klingsor: Ravel I. "Asia" II. "The Enchanted Flute" III. "The Indifferent One" "La Valse," a choreographic poem Ravel
...opera houses of Europe, Feuersnot is an old story. Strauss finished it in 1901 (it antedates Salome, Elektra, Der Rosenkavalier, his three operas known in the U. S.) when the afterglow of the Mightier Richard still blinded the young composers of the day, sending tunes from Tristan and Siegfried watered and warped into a thousand insignificant attempts. But Strauss even then could stand alone. He quoted, to be sure, from Rheingold but he quoted deliberately, when it suited him to have Wagner pop out of the back-ground of his libretto as the great forerunner of himself?the great Strauss...
...Francisco. Twelve operas (no repetitions) constitute the San Francisco Opera Company's season, from Sept. 15 to Oct. 1. They are Carmen, La Cena delle Beffe, Turandot, Falstaff, Tristan und Isolde, Romeo and Juliet, Cavalleria Rusticana, Pagliacci, La Boheme, Tosca, Manon Lescaut, Aida, Il Trovatore...
...festival at Bayreuth, because the theatre was undergoing necessary post-War repairs. This year, however, from July 19 to Aug. 20, it is being resumed under the stage direction of Siegfried Wagner .(son of the composer), the orchestral leadership of Karl Elmendorf, Karl Muck and Anton Witek. Tristan und Isolde was the first production. It will be followed by Parsifal and Der Ring des Nibelungen. Critics announced the productions were brilliant-worthy candles for the shrine...
...letters to Elise Wille, "I ... adorer of women," M. Barthou proceeds to detailed accounts of Wagner's amorous adventures. He was the adorer of many women but most notably three: Minna (Wilhelmina Planer), a stupid, clamorous, third-rate actress whom he married; Mathilde (Mme. Weson-donck) who inspired Tristan; and Cosima (Frau von Bülow, natural daughter of Franz Liszt) who provided the stimulus for the Ring series and whom Wagner loved most of all. In his relations with these ladies, Wagner provided the world with one of those astonishing paradoxes by which a brilliant man is enabled to write...