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...user was the first day's opera. Familiar was the cast: fat Lauritz Melchior sang the title rôle; Soprano Maria Muller of the Metropolitan Opera was an able Elizabeth, but (said a U. S. correspondent) "her impersonation wanted in true virginal tenderness and womanliness." The Venusberg scene did not represent "frenzied eroticism" but "revue calisthenics." Venus (Contralto Anni Helm) was "tender, but in a maternal way." Nevertheless the audience was enthusiastic, applauded (mostly for Toscanini) a full ten minutes...
Wagner's Tannhäuser-Overture and Venusberg Music (Victor, 3 records, $6.50). Called the "Paris Version" because in 1861 Wagner added a bacchanale before taking Tannhäuser to the French capital for the pleasure of Princess Metternich, this is sensuous, stupendous Wagner...
From her birth on the foam of the Mediterranean to her final disappearance from the medieval German castle of Venusberg, Venus's career consisted of little but amatory adventures. Author de Miomandre's account does not pretend to be exhaustive, but it hits the high spots: her marriage with Vulcan, her bedazzlement of Paris, subsequent passages at arms with Mars, Anchises, Adonis, Hermes, Tannhauser. Venus's first, most famed intrigue, her affair with Mars, is related with great insight and sympathy: from this narration the wronged husband, Vulcan, emerges the hero, and Mars is shown...
...same evening in Sanders Theatre, a concert by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Serge Koussevitzky conducting. The program, embraces Emmanuel Bach's Concerto for Orchestra, the "Venusberg music" from "Tannhaeuser," the Prelude to Mussorgsky's opera, "Khovantchina," a Scherzo from Rimsky-Korsakov's opera, "Tsar Salten" and Brahms' Fourth Symphony...
Friday afternoon and Saturday evening in Symphony Hall, the fourth pair of concerts by the Boston Symphony Orchestra under the leadership of Mr. Koussevitzky. The program is comprised of Weber's Overture to "Oberon", Roussel's Symphony in B-flat and three excerpts from Wagner: the "Venusberg music" from "Tannhacuser"; Siegfried's Funeral March from "Goetterdaemerung", and the Prelude to "Die Meistersinger...