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...past few years a synthetic art-form whereby great masterworks are given stage presentations for which they were never intended. With her sister Alice (now married and living in Paris), Irene Lewisohn started her experiments in the Neighborhood Playhouse, a small theatre in Manhattan's slums. She interested Conductor...
...Glee Club has been rehearsing for its concert with the Smith Glee Club on Saturday at Northampton, attended by Dr. Ghorakoff, conductor of the Smith Glee Club...
...Sound is a series of waves. The waves need something to travel in. In general, the denser the medium the better sound gets through. Water is a better sound conductor than air. Steel is better than water...
...gods of ancient Greece which Sophocles told about in his Oedipus Rex 2,300 years ago. As of old they decreed and prophesied that Oedipus, son of Laius, would murder his father and marry his mother, Jocasta. They served also last week to provide the material for one of Conductor Leopold Stokowski's most ambitious flights into modernistic musical production: the first U. S. stage performances of the Oedipus Rex of Composer Igor Stravinsky, an opera-oratorio with a text recast by Frenchman Jean Cocteau, then Latinized. Oedipus Rex will be repeated April 21 and 22 at Manhattan's Metropolitan...
Some phonograph records are musical events. Each month TIME notes the noteworthy:* Opera: Cavalleria Rusticana by Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of La Scala, Milan (Victor, $13.50)-Mascagni's earthy melodrama expertly played on its home field. Conductor Carlo Sabajno captains an evenly matched team. Symphonic: Stravinsky's Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra by Igor Stravinsky and the Orchestra des Concerts Straram under Ernest Ansermet (Columbia, $6)-The composer provides the lace work for the Caprice which was played with great success this winter by Sergei Koussevitzky. Glazunov's Seasons by a Symphony Orchestra under Alexander Glazunov (Columbia...