Word: wozzeck
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...coach her three children. Music Editor Murphy has not touched a piano since he enlisted in the Navy at 17 in 1944. His constant preoccupation on the job with music listening and concert going has given him a set of musical references that ranges from Pal Joey to Wozzeck, and a special affection for Verdi, Brahms, Wallingford Riegger and Charles Ives...
...hours, Strauss's orchestra rages, shrieks and howls with a kind of demented fury. Moreover, Librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal's reading of Sophocles bristles with frank Freudian overtones of a kind the operatic stage had not seen before and would not see again until Berg's Wozzeck. All in all, the audience tended to agree with the fabled Ernestine Schumann-Heink, who sang the first Klytaemnestra but vowed never to do it again. "It was frightful," said she. "We were a set of madwomen. There is nothing beyond Elektra. We have lived to reach the farthest boundary...
...deadly charm, and the audience is unable to sympathize with her or her victims. At several points, e.g., when an elderly butler confesses in an aside that he himself is smitten with Lulu, the spectators usually break into titters. Musically more advanced than Berg's only other opera, Wozzeck (TIME, March 16), Lulu has little of Wozzeck's compelling dramatic power. Remarkably, only 25 years after its premiere, the most experimental opera of one of the century's most experimental composers plays like a period piece...
...MUSIC OF TODAY with Andrew Schenck. Part One of a musical analysis of Alban Berg's Wozzeck...
Person to Person (CBS, 10:30-11 p.m.). From New York: Soprano Eleanor Steber, star of the Metropolitan Opera's remarkable new production Wozzeck. From Columbia, S.C.: Politico James F. Byrnes...