Word: tristans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Schbnberg's awful, shrieking Die Glückliche Hand was still in their minds (TIME, April 28, 1930). But Gurrelieder proved to be neither ear-splitting nor bewildering. It began like Wagner in his tenderest mood, Wagner as tie described the forest murmurs in Siegfried, the love of Tristan and Isolde, of Siegfried and Briinnhilde...
...follow the notes with their eyes as well as their ears. The latest additions from the special fund set aside by the House for this purpose are: Beethoven, Schumann, Bach, Brahms, deFalla, Stravinsky, Debussy's "Pelleas and Melisande," Mendelssohn, Rimsky-Korsakoff, and Wagner's "Parsifal," "Die Meistersinger" and "Tristan and Isolde...
...that Wagner has popularized "a longing for a higher life, coupled with a tremendously powerful appeal to the vigor of bodily movement", to which last current society music is also dedicated. No comparison is possible between the bombastic "An American in Paris" and an opera so highly emotional as "Tristan and Isolde...
...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...