Word: orchestras
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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While scores & scores of guests at Belle Livingstone's "Mecca of Merriment" (TIME, Nov. 10) drank, ping-ponged, played miniature golf and rigadooned one night last week, a group of determined individuals muscled their way past the doorman. One of them interrupted the orchestra, seized a megaphone and-as every one acquainted with the place had expected would happen some day soon- announced: "Ladies and gentlemen, the next number of the program will be a raid. The place is in the custody of the Federal Government." Hostess Livingstone fled across her wee golf course, tried...
...attend rehearsals. One night the soprano singing in the new opera Louise collapsed in the second act. The director remembered the girl who had been watching rehearsals, sent for her, asked if she could finish the performance. Mary Garden had never sung on a stage, never sung with orchestra. But she did not hesitate, said: "M. le Directeur, have no fear. I shall not fail." She recalls now trying postehaste to loop in the costume of the larger soprano, thinking: "My God, in all this huge place, isn't there anybody who has a pin?" Her performance created...
Some phonograph records are musical events. Each month TIME notes the noteworthy * Opera: Siegfried, by the London Symphony under Albert Coates and Robert Heger, the Berlin Staatsoper Orchestra under Leo Blech, the Vienna Staatsoper Orchestra under Karl Alwin and famed Wagnerian Singers (Victor, $15)-Tenor Lauritz Melchior, who looks like any fat boy when he sings Siegfried at Bayreuth and Manhattan's Metropolitan, proves an excellent phonograph artist. Contralto Maria Olszewska and Soprano Frida Leider, expert members of the Chicago Civic Opera, sing Erda and Briinnhilde. Die Meistersinger, the aria Wahn! Wahn! (Victor, $2)- As Cobbler Hans Sachs, Baritone...
Schumann's Symphony No. 1 by the Chicago Symphony under Frederick Stock (Victor, $8)-A scholarly reading of the happy Spring Symphony written by Schumann soon after his marriage to rigid .Clara Wieck. Schumann's Symphony No. 2 by the 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...
...Baritone Heinrich Schlusnus (Brunswick, $1.50)-A foremost lieder singer displays his fine phrasing, his immaculate diction. Sing Something Simple and Happy Feet (Victor)-The Revelers again get the effects of a full-piece band. Body and Soul and With a Song in My Heart by Jack Hylton and his orchestra (Victor, $1.25)-A famed British jazzman embroiders neat concert versions of two deserving songs. Dance Records: You're Lucky to Me and Memories of You (Okeh)-For those who like hot jazz with husky singing, husky trumpets. The band is Louis Armstrong's Sebastian New Cotton Club Orchestra...