Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 187, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 December 1934 — Page 21

DEC. 15, 1934

Strauss Opera Selected to Start Season Juilliard Music School Picks Gluck Work to Follow. Hit Timm Sfiiriiit NEW YORK, Dec. 15.-01 particular interest is the announcement made by the Juilliard S( nool of Music of its opera schedule for the season of 1934-35. Only two operas have been selected so tar, but they are the “Ariadne auf Naxos” of Richard Strauss, presented early this month, and Gluck’s “Orfeo.” The dates for “Orfo” is Jan. 30 and 31 and Ffeb. 1 and 2. An evening of ballet is planned lor March 8 and 9, and a third opera, to be announced later, will close the season on April 3, 4. 5 and 6. “Ariadne auf Naxos,” a itiiniature work parodying at ohce the "opera seria” of the eightenth century and the comic “intermezzo" with characters from the “commedia. dell arte,” never had been presented in New York. First Sung in Stuttgart The world premiere took place at Stuttgart in 1912 with Maria Jeritza as Ariadne, Hermann Jadlowker as Bacchus, and Margarete Siems of the Dresden court opera in the florid role of Zerbinetta—a part designed for Frieda Hempel, which illness prevented Mme Hempel from singing. The production was staged by Max Reinhardt. The only previous performance in the United States, so far as the Writer knows, was given by the lamented Philadelphia Civic Opera Company at Philadelphia’s Metropolitan Opera House about six or seven years ago. The Juilliard graduate school also promises a spring festival to commemorate the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the births of Bach and Handel. Three programs are to be presented twice each. They are made up as follows: 1, Handel’s “Israel in Egypt.” April 27 and 29; 2, orchestra works of Bach and Handel and Bach’s “Coffee Cantata,” April 30 and May 1; 3, Bach's “Passion According to St. Matthew,” May 3 and 4. The Oratorio Society will collaborate in these performances. Announces Policy Max Rabinoff has issued the following statement with respect to the procedure of the Cosmopolitan Opera Association at the Hippodrome: “Beginning next week, we shall give five operas a week—four evening performances and one matinee. The evenings will be from Thursday through Sunday and the matinee will be on Saturday. v “The Cosmopolitan Opera Association is a co-operative venture. We have a subscription membership of 6,000, and our purpose is to develop a company that can provide New York with expert performances of grand opera at modest prices. “We have found that the people we seek to reach welcome our productions, but they are unable, for business reasons, it appears, to be present at performances earlier in the week. We have therefore decided to concentrate our resources on the five performances in the latter half of the week. “I desire to emphasize the point that there is an immense and enthusiastic audience for popular priced opera in the city. The Hippodrome has housed audiences of more than 5.000 for a single performance. There is no doubt that there is a demand for at least five performances a week. “The object of this company is not to make one grand splurge—that is to give as mans operas as oossible until the resources of both the company and the public are exhausted. But we earnestly seek to build something substantial, a company that can continue its productions throughout most of the year, as do many of the opera houses of Europe. ’ K

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City Will See Popular Revue ‘As Thousands Cheer’ Will Go On Hoad Soon. Although the great popularity of “As Thousands Cheer” has made it neeessa>; to extend the Chicago run of this ght edged revue beyond its original looking at the Grand Opera House, it is now announced that the end of its successful engagement in the Loop will positively occur on Saturday night, Jan. 5, when the Irving Perlin-Moss Hart entertainment will take to the road to visit such cities as Kansas City, St. Louis, Pittsburgh. Indianapolis, Columbus, Toledo and other centers in the Middle West and the East. One reason why “As Thousands Cheer” is meeting with as great success on the road as it did in New York, where it remained for 50 solid weeks, is that Sam H. Harris, the producer, is presenting the big show everywhere precisely as it was given at the Music Box Theater on Broadway, with the original cast of

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Music Record Library Gains Student Favor

Antioch College Collection Proves Increasingly Popular. There is no symphony orchestra at Yellow Springs, 0., a village of 1300 persons, but symphonic concerts are frequent there, and musical taste is constantly spreading and improving. All this is due to a collection in the Antioch College library of more j,han 125 albums of the best recorded music, which circulate among the college’s 612 students just as books do. During a recent five-week period, with £33 students enrolled in classes at Antioch, there was a circulation of 229 albums. In winter it is not uncommon lor the students to withdraw 400 albums a month from the library. Student taste at Antioch appears to be about evenly divided between the gTeat classics and the modern. Beethoven led the composers in circulation during the five-week period, with a total number of 32 albums witdrawn. Brahms and Strauss followed w.th 20 each, and next in order came Tschaikowsky with 18, Wagner with 17 and Schubert with 15. Brahms Is Favorite If a single concert program were arranged on the basis of popular choice at Antioch, it would probably include Brahms’ “First Symphony” and Rimsky-Korsakow’s symphonic suite, “Scheherazade,” which circulated seven times each, and a few Strauss waltzes, one volume of which was withdrawn six times. Schubert’s Seventh Symphony also circulated six times, and these five times each: Beethoven’s Fifth and Ninth symphonies, Chopin's nocturnes, selections from Victor Herbert, Schubert’s “Unfinished” symphony, an album of Spanish music, the first volume of Strauss’ waltzes, Tschaikowsky’s “Romeo and Juliet" and selections from Wagner’s “Gotterdammerung.” Collection Given in 192$ Antioch’s collection of records was made possible by a fund given by the class of 1928 for the general encouragement of music there. The Student-Faculty Committee appointed to administer this bought cautiously at first three &t four albums and 25 more the next year when these circulated rapidly. For the last two years the Community Government at Antioch has also contributed funds for the purchase of records. Antioch’s album collection now represents 45 composers, from Bach to Stravinsky, and numerous countries and types of music. Symphonic music is largest in volume in the collection, which includes nothing popular except one album of Victor Heibert and a few Gilbert & Sullivan operettas. As an incident to the growth of this collection, the Antioch Library has had to add to its store of books in musical appreciation and history, and of biographies of the masters.