Evening Star Newspaper, April 26, 1929, Page 22

29 * PREMIERES DRAW MUSICIANS, PRAISE Costumes of One New York‘;muonnl Composers’ Guild February 14, Offering Designed by Wash- ington Girl. BY HELEN FETTER, Music Editor of The Star. NEW YORK, April 26.—Two of the ost unusual musical presentations ver produced in this country combined L:vxm ‘geometric lines emphasized and the progfam presented by the‘League f Composers for the bemefit' 6f the Na- onal Music League to attract the most istinguished of audiences to the Metro- litan Opera House last night. Both were premiere performances in e metropolis of the New World. One aited 300 years for a “Broadway first ight.” jpera, “Il Combattimento de Tancredi| written to a_text by the Superficial, Clorinda,” eat Tasso 2nd given its first perform- ince anywhere at the court of the Duke | f Mantua in 1626. Lest year Werner osten, who directed st night's per- | This was Claudio Mantevordi’s | | | rmance, presented tMs production mr{ he first time in America at Northamp- fon. Mass. i Washington had a definite part in this emiere in New York. as the costumes | r !’ere designed by Natalie Hays Ham- | ond. daughter of John Hays Hammond | { the National Capital. Like the set- :inm the costumes were kept within the ounds of the conventional, for, al- hough, as Aaron Copland, the modern- t, remarked after the performance— Bthis shows how a radical sounds 300 ears later.” Even so the designs for ested in music and action. Miss Ham. ond showed excellent taste in her di igns. Following the performance she | ppeared with the conductor and par- icipants in singing and acting reles in urtain calls. Soloists Effectively Placed. n effective factor in this production the arrangement of a triple pulpit- structure in which the soloists were laced, in costume. All three were very | ood, with Jeanne Palmer Soudeikine | s Clorinda, Charles Kullman as Tan- redi and Marie Milliette as the nar- tor. Edith Burnett and Samuel Eliot, ., were equally good in the stage role: he harpsichord, played by Irene Ja. bi, was a dominant feature of the ac- | mpaniment and the chamber orcliss- , composed of men selected from the | hilharmonic Symhpony Orchestra, was oroughly adequate. It was interesting | hear this, one of the earliest of op- ratic productions, presented on the | tage of the greatest opera house in the | IT-COSTS NO MORE TO GET THE BEST 'S Service is complete. FOOTER'S Cleaning is best. FOOTER'S STORE: Furs Suits Dresses “If it’s fur or fabric we can clean or dye it” FOOTER’S AMERICA’S BEST CLEANERS AND DYERS 1332 G St.’N.W. Phone Main 2343 1784 Col. Rd. N.W. Phone Col. 720 = of FyrewellF. amous m.- Ordor tons today. | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, APRIL 26. 1929. world today, where a season of 24 weeks of opera, including the néwest work' by the present-day Itallan, Pizzett!, was re- cently concluded. " Completely in contrast was the other premiere, the second half of the pro- gram. This was the American premiere for a stage version of “Les Noces,” by Igor Stravinski. The music itself wi not unfamiliar to a New York audience, having been presented in concert ver- sion under the auspices of the Inter- 495-Pound Butcher, Jilted by 120-Pound Woman, Shoots Self By the Associated Press. BUDAPEST, Hungary, April 26.—Mathias Stich, a butcher, weighing 49§ pounds,.and fre- quently described as tHe fastest man in Europe, shot himself to- day for love of a woman one- fourth his weight. Stich, who is 6 feet 7 inches in height, had to be taken to a hospital in a motor truck, as no ambulance would accommodate him. At the hospital his weight broke down an operating table and no bed could be found large enough to accemmodate him. He was not expected to live. 926. Leopold Stokowski, popular lead- er of the Philadelphia Symphony Or- chastera, conducted that premiere. It was fitting that he should conduct the stage version's first performance last night. The audience lingered for sev- eral curtain calls, not content until it had brought Mr. Stokowski, as well as the soloists, before the curtain. Ballet Work Praised. | Those who have seen the Parisian | version of this ballet, which was given he neutral tones of gray and brown | bridegroom, were admirable in their contrasted with black and white, found | roles. H last night's performance, with regular | The singers, too, gave excellently pre- | Chauve Souris brilliancy in the Sou- |pared interpretations of the difficult deikine settings and costumes, and|music, Nina Koshetz being ideal in the' mechanical puppet gyrations of the|soprano, Sophie Braslau carrying thej dancers in their flip, almost caricatur- | contralto part well] with the tenor,| ish, miming of the story of a Russian (Gabriel Leonoff, d the baritone, peasant marriage, very different and|Moshe Rudinov, equally commendable. although intensely enter- | The four pianists, all well known Amer- taining. Elizaveta Anderson-Ivantzoff, |ican composers, including Marc Blitz- director of choreography, has utilized |stein, Aaron Copland, Louis Gruenberg mass . motions and grotesquerie em- (and Frederick Jacobi, blended their phasizing Oriental lines and gestures [piano music into the pattern of the amazingly well. The solo dancers, par- | whole most skilifully. 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