Evening Star Newspaper, August 23, 1931, Page 82

OW many last Tuesday, dozing beside their ancestral radios, heard sud- denly those familiar words, “Das Schiff—sehst du es nicht?” And how many at that sat bolt upright and said to themselves “why that must be ‘Tristan and Isclde!’” and wondered where the opera was coming from and then realized that those at first indistinct strains were part of the Wagner Festival being held at Bayreuth? ‘The importance of the moment is not to be underestimated. This is the first time that such music has been transmitted to the United States. While atmospheric conditions prevented lis- teners from hearing the entire third act of ,” as had been originally and ‘there was much spluttering and the usuffl wheezes which afflict most transatlantic broad- casts, it .was no hardship to hear what one could hear—especially that all-famous passage, the “Libestodz.” If, in fact, Wagner himseilf had wished to ariange such a broadcast, and if browsing among his works he had pondered over a suitable work with which to sponsor his first long-distance American audition from Bay- reuth, wouldn't he perhaps have chosen this wvery same passagc—a lyric work which has been unsurpassed b2fore or since its creation? TUBDAY'S “Tristan” was conducted by Wil- |¥ helm Furtwaengler. Gottelf Pistor—un- familiar to these shores—sang Tristan; a former member of the Mstropolitan Opera Co., Nanny was the Isolde, and others in the cast included, most notably, Josef Mano- , who was the King Mark; Anny Helbm, Sattler, Friedrich Schroeder and Deszo come from Salzburg, where the Mozart Festival is now in full swing Just where the radio pendulum will swing to next it is hard to say. But why not, for instance, try what should be er grand festival of cathedral music ber in England? Here, it is said, will hear group choir singing by y of foremost cathedrals of the land; in fact, # happy conglomeration of young and sopranos and altos and other voices as should perhaps blow the roof off some of the less is whispered that at any time of the year Merry England, as far bchind as it is in Ey Sekel f i i § E I g jil g | 1S :. -3 1 H i | 8! f | : g ; F ™ i g : g 3 B : X g 5 : | | : : il | it ? ‘ FHE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTION, D. C, AUGUST 23, 199" Il ’ 1‘1‘\ l.~; : ;lu£!!lllllu..; ! Mrs. E.S. Coolidge to Sponsor Fourteen Chamber Music Concerts Abroad During the Late Fall. At left is Julia Schelling, who is lecturing at Bayreuth, Germany, for a second season, and at right is Lisa Gardiner, who has been studying and traveling this Summer in Spain. * Orchestra Auditions Take Place in September eight children’s concerts to be given the instructions to Personnel Manager George Gaul to call auditions for that date, at which time Musigraphs I8 g { Band Concerts . United States Marine Band, Capt. Taylor