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Manhattan operagoers who are wailing this season because Deems Taylor's Peter Ibbetson has an imported libretto and music derived almost completely from the great Europeans (and is, at best, a mediocre work) will have opportunity next year to pass judgment on an opera more properly called "native...
Throughout, Soprano Lucrezia Bori (the Duchess of Towers) acted with perfect grace, sang her English with very little accent. Hardworking, 56-year-old Tenor Edward Johnson was a sensitive, groping Peter, believably youthful. Baritone Lawrence Tibbett (Colonel Ibbetson) did a thrilling death. Joseph Urban's dream sets gave a happy, springtime effect...
...songs. The orchestration took on a lovely, flowing sheen. Interludes in the manner of Pelleas et Melisande linked the scenes. Theatrically effective was the music for the scene in which Peter met his childhood hero, old Major Duquesnoir who did not recognize him; also in the killing of Colonel Ibbetson and in the wait for the execution call...
...World through his friend Colyumist Franklin Pierce Adams to whose "Conning Tower" he had sent many a bright verse signed "Smeed," Deems spelled backwards. Since leaving the World in 1925 he has edited Musical America, written stories for a dozen different magazines, told stories over the radio. Peter Ibbetson he wrote at his Stamford, Conn, farmhouse, on which, for relaxation, he carpentered two wings. Mrs. Joseph Deems Taylor is Actress Mary Kennedy, also a playwright (coauthor of Mrs. Partridge Presents...
...0ther U. S. composers whose works have been produced at the Metropolitan: Frederick Shepherd Converse, the late Professor Horatio William Parker, of Yale (his Mono, was awarded a $10,000 prize), Walter Damrosch (to whom Peter Ibbetson is dedicated), Victor Herbert Reginald de Koven, Henry Franklin Belknap Gilbert, Charles Wakefield Cadman, John Adam Hugo, Joseph Carl Breil, Henry Kimball Hadley, John Alden Carpenter. Composer Carpenter's Skyscrapers, a ballet, and Taylor's The King's Henchman survived longer than the dreary ten which preceded them...