Berthold Goldschmidt and Mahler’s 10th
I’m sure many readers here also follow Norman Lebrecht – if not, he offers on his daily news-digest a fascinating audio clip that should not get lost. It is Deryck Cooke explaining his… Continue reading
Monthly Archive: September, 2013
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Franz Waxman
Those living in the UK may have listened to the BBC’s week-long broadcast on Radio 3 of film composers. I have to admit that I only caught a couple of the programmes. To… Continue reading
The Independent reviews Forbidden Music
It’s always a relief when people write positively about ‘Forbidden Music’. It’s still early days I’m told, and it can take up to two years for reviews to filter through. Slowly, they have… Continue reading
Anti-Semitic cartoons
In a perverse way, there is possibly no better means of trying to get our 21st century heads around anti-Semitism than looking through a collection of anti-Semitic postcards. This was quite a popular… Continue reading
Korngold’s “die Kathrin”
One of Korngold’s more puzzling confections is his opera ‘die Kathrin’. If one looks at the timeline of its composition, it comes exactly ten years after his previous opera ‘Das Wunder der Heliane’… Continue reading
The fall of the operetta
Edmund Eysler and Leo Fall are two operetta composers who along with Oscar Straus and Leo Ascher seemed to have vanished entirely from the repertoire. Whether this is the nature of operetta, which… Continue reading
The Zeitoper
Viktor Zuckerkandl makes a return to this page with his critique of the ‘Zeitoper’, a concept that has no English equivalent but was used to convey a genre of opera that offered the… Continue reading