Word: diaghilev
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Goossens' first job as a conductor was under Sir Thomas Beecham (opera, pills) after which he led the Diaghilev ballet for five years. In 1923 he went to Rochester where he was helped by his strong, handsome appearance. In Rochester last year he found a second wife for himself, pretty, 21-year-old Janet ("Jansy") Lewis, a student at the Eastman School of Music. (His engagement to his good friend, Mrs. Christian Holmes of Fleischmann's Yeast wealth, had previously been rumored and denied.) Goossens' hobbies are Shakespeare and shark fishing. His best known composition: the opera...
...Berlin Staatsoper Orchestra under Hans Pfitzner (Brunswick, $7.50)-Schumann in a graver, more classic mood capably interpreted. Ravel's Daphnis et Chloe by Philippe Gaubert and Orchestre des Concerts Straram (Columbia, $4)-An excellent performance of the symphonic suite commissioned by the late Serge Diaghilev for his Russian Ballet. The originality and finish which marked even Ravel's earliest work is shown in this month's release of his Menuet Antique (Brunswick). Chamber Music: Ravel's Quartet in F by the Krettly Quartet of Paris (Victor, $5)-The popular French composer caught in a deeply personal...
...sacrificial dance in accordance with the spirit of the whole production-jerking, stamping, lunging in the manner which seems to some beholders insane, to others sublime. Many seeing and hearing understood for the first time why the Paris production, put on by the late great Sergei Pavlovitch Diaghilev in 1913, was greeted by a riot, the audience shouting so that the dancers, unable to hear the music, continued only by watching the master's beat in the wings. Some even reacted like the Londoner who said it was a "threat against the foundations of our tonal institutions . . . [standing...