Evening star., 1936-08-08
Bv Alice EverSman.


should be passed on to the music
readers, as it concerns opportunities
to hear works that not ordinarily come
our way Undoubtedly the dream OF
most serious musicians is to visit
Salzburg during Summer festival and
in historic surroundings, hear the
great artists and conductors as
sembled there and assist at the musical
feast which serves to bring out every
individual angle of talent OF the per-
formers so that what might be called
a panorama of the great musical per-
sonalities could be had during this
period.
Heretofore, if one could not make
the trip, there was nothing to do but
satisfy ones interest and curiosity by
reading the newspaper accounts
which arrive some time after the event
and necessarily in abbreviated form.
This Summer the National Broadcast
ing Co. has arranged series of six
broadcasts so planned that American
listeners can hear major number
of the famous artists and the out
standing presentations by simply
turning the radio dial. Last Tues
day the first broadcast gave half an
hour to Mozart's Don Giovanni"
conducted by Bruno Walter, with
Dusolina Giannini, Luise HelletSgru-
ber, Virgilio Lazzari and Enzio Pima
In the cast.
Today, from 1905 to 1890 pm,
Wagner's Die Meistersinger," con-
Quoted by Toscanini, will be heard.
On Sunday, August 16, from 2:30 to
3 p.m., Toscanini will conduct Bee
thoven's "Fidelio," with LotteLehmann,
Anton Baumann, Alfred Jerger and
Emanuel List whose local debut was
made last Winter at Mrs. Townsend's S
musicales, in the leading roles. Verdi's
"Falstaff," also under the baton Of
Toscanini, with Giannini and Dino
Borgioli, can be heard on Thursday,
August 20, from 2:05 to 2:30 pm.
Felix Weingartner, conducting Mo-
Eart's "Cosi Fan Tutte," with Charles
Kullmann, American tenor, in the
principal role, will be broadcast from
2:05 to 2:30 pm. on Tuesday, Au-
gust 25, and the following day the
broadcasts will conclude with one of
the Orchestral Serenades," performed
in the courtyard of the ancient
palace of the prince-archbishop from
4:05 to 4:30 pm.
EROM the Columbia Broadcasting
Co. comes the announcement of
the first known performance in
America of Wagners "Liebesverbot"
overture and the radio premiere, and
probably first performance of any
kind in this country during the last
IL years, of the overture to Wagner s
second opera, Die Feen." Both over
lures will be conducted by Howard
Barlow tomorrow afternoon from 3
to pm. on the "Everybodys Music"
program. The following information
and remainder of the program may
prove of interest.
"One fine night, little over a
hundred years ago, two German stu
dents on vacation in Bohemia scam
dalized the town-folk of Teplitz by
stamping through the streets and
singing the forbidden 'Marseillaise'
at the top of their young and slightly
wobbly voices.
"The gendarme who awakened
them in their hotel room the next
morning listened to their explanation
of having drunk too heartily of
Czernosek wine and let them of with
a lecture. His words were lost on
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by name. Back in Leipsig, the COM
poser, just over 20, wrote an opera
entitled 'Das Liebesverbot forbidden
Love),' inspired by his Bohemian
merrymaking.
"On the same program will be
heard the overture to Wagner's second
opera, Die Feen (The Fairies.
Barlow dug up these rare and almost
forgotten works to complete pro-
gram showing Wagners genius in
the process of growth. Such pro-
gram demanded inclusion of COM
poSerS who influenced Wagner'S
early works. For this purpose, Bar
low will also conduct Daniel Auber's
'Masaniello' overture, all but for
gotten now, but pioneer French
grand opera and powerful influence
on Wagner's generation, and Won
Webers 'Euryanthe' overture, in
which Wagner first revealed his power
as conductor Rounding out the
program are the overtures to 'Rienzi,
which first established Wagner's
fame, and to The Flying Dutchman,'
with which he followed up his first
success.
4 merican listeners, who may
wonder why they never had a
chance to hear Wagner's 'Das Lie
besverbot' before the coming program
of 'Everybodys Music might con-
slider the fact that the composer him
self heard it only in snatches, and
had ample reason to wish he had
never heard it at all. At Magdeburg,
the young Wagner conducted for an
opera company which paid no salary,
but permitted him to give himself
a benefit performance at the end of
the season. For this occasion, Wag-
ner chose 'Das Liebesverbot,' and was
persuaded to turn over the first night S
receipts to the company fund and
take the second performances profits
as his own.
1T was disastrous move. From
the opening bar, the singers forgot
their lines and filled in with parts
learned from other operas. Only
three persons appeared for the second
night-creditors all. At curtain time,
the leading soprano Dashed the lead
ing tenor in the face for some real
or imagined impertinence. The rest
of the company took sides and engaged
in a general brawl. The curtain
never went up.
"After repeated failure to have it
performed, Wagner presented the score
to Ludwig of Bavaria with dedica-
tory poem apologizing for this sin OF
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