Word: tristans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bruno Walter (Mon. 3:40 p.m., NBC-Blue) conducts at Lake Lucerne (see above) in Wagner's Bacchanale from Tannhduser, Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde...
Last December one member of the Goncourt Academy died, and the remaining nine, most of them well above 70, disagreed about his successor. Candidates included Humorist Tristan Bernard, Novelists Colette and Jules Romains. But for 23 years Leon Daudet has been beating the drum for his fellow Royalist, dramatist and novelist, gushy Rene Benjamin. Little known in the U. S., where few of his books have been translated, Benjamin is known in France as a winner of a Goncourt Prize himself, as General Franco's most lyric supporter. Interviewing Franco last year, Benjamin called the general beautiful, lovely, ravishing...
...Wedding March from "Le Coq d'Or"Rimsky-Korsakov *Overture to "Semiramide" Rossini *Minuet from "L'Arlesienne" Bizet *Soviet Iron Works Mossolov *Prelude and Love Death from "Tristan and Isolde" Wagner *Hora Staccato (Roumanian) Dinieu-Heifetz "Artist's Life," Waltzes Strauss *Sixth Slavonic Dance Dvorak *Intermezzo from "Goyescas" Granados *March, "On the Mall" Goldman *Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square...
...continental Europe opera is usually sung in the language of the country where it is produced. Thus in Germany Pagliacci becomes Bajazzo, in Italy Tristan nnd Isolde becomes Tristano e Isotta, in France Götterddmmerung becomes Le Crepuscule des Dieux. In England and the U. S. opera is usually given in its original language. But from time to time British and U. S. producers have interested themselves in the idea of translated opera and have tried out performances, even entire seasons, of opera in English...
Wagner's Kurwenal, a great, shaggy man, was Tristan's tutor and companion. Mathilde, Baroness von Freytag-Loringhoven's Kurwenal was a short, smooth-haired dachshund, probably the most remarkable dog of the Western world. Last week's American Kennel Gazette gave the recently deceased dog Kurwenal a striking obituary...