Word: wozzeck
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...Rethberg, Tenor Beniamino Gigli), the enterprising Opera Company which Mary Louise Curtis Bok finances in Philadelphia was absorbed in preparations for the most important U. S. premiére of the season. On March 19 the music-wise will journey from miles around to hear Alban Berg's Wozzeck, for five years the talk of Europe. Not a singer but Conductor Leopold Stokowski is bound to be the hero of the occasion. Conductor Stokowski's enthusiasm for unusual stage productions was evidenced last year by his performances of Stravinsky's ballet, Le Sucre du Printemps and Schonberg...
...Wozzeck's plot is surprisingly old to be the perfect counterpart of Berg's ultra-modern score. It was written nearly 100 years ago by Georg Büchner, a German poet-scientist who had ideas far ahead of his time. Büchner died at 23 in Zurich where he earned a doctorate with a treatise on the nervous system of fish. He left three plays: Leonce and Lena, written while authorities were hunting him for his revolutionary sympathies; Danton's Tod, given in the U. S. a few seasons ago by Max Reinhardt...
March 19?American premiere of Austrian Alban Berg's Wozzeck, presented by Philadelphia Grand Opera Company; at the Academy of Music, Philadelphia. Conductor: Leopold Stokowski...