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Embarrassed Composer Prokofieff explained: "I... tried to preserve the spirit of Tolstoy's . . . language." As Pravda gave the performance a mild but official chiding ("A text ... for reading ... is not always good when sung"), U.S. music lovers virtually abandoned all hope of hearing War and Peace next season...
This salty chantey of a too-trusting maid and her love-'em-& -leave-'em sailor was a favorite barroom ballad of World War I. Wherever servicemen gathered, it was sung with gusto-provided no ladies were present...
...full of "vitality" and "force," but found something a little "fierce" in the libretto's psychological case history of a sadistic Suffolk fisherman (adapted from a 19th-Century poem by George Crabbe). The boyish, mild-looking composer (when he was eight he wrote an angry song to be sung by God) indignantly denied that his tale of a madman was gloomy: "It is the struggle of the individual against the masses ... a subject very close to my heart...
...says: "Free Swing Concert Tonight in the Mozart Theater." In Salzburg it is swing, in Vienna it is a tune somewhat more familiar to European ears. But unless the orchestras get together, the Austrians are more likely to listen to a new variation of that old Horst Wessel Lied, sung by men who are now fugitives in the mountains...
...Henry Lyt ton, who was once a baritone on a Mid west gaslight circuit, felt he ought to sing a little. His voice was still clear, although it shook a bit. As his secretary helped him on with his coat, he recalled the words to a song he had sung 65 years ago with a road company in Grand Rapids: "Wake, lady, wake! The hour of love draws near. . . . Wake, lady, wake...