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TURANDOT.
PUCCINI'S..LAST OPERA.
"Turandot," Puccini's last opera, was produced at Covent Garden in handsome and imposing fashion,
It has been announced during the week that the L.C.C. has sanctioned the use of its school organisation in order that a season of "instructional films," to be shown at the Kingsway Hall on Saturday mornings during the forthcoming winter and spring terms, may be arranged (says the London "Observer.") For the first time a children's programme has been drawn up on a fairly large scale by the London Education Au- thority in consultation with Its teachers and the cinema industry.
This step has been hailed by some The "Himno Nacional" was writ-had a world-wide succesa. educationists as indicating the ten some years after the events it Now comes "Turandot," and here growth among the authorities of a immortalises and is regarded by the heroine (Liu) is tortured in full more friendly attitude towards the Argentines as a masterpiece of har view of everyone. We are getting uss of films in education, though the mony. It enshrines the sacrifices more and more like the imperial L.C.C. have not falled to point out of General Sant Martin and the early Romans. that their present policy involves "libertadores. Young Argentina Liu is tortured in order to per only a very qualified approval, inas-objects to the modification of the suade her to tell the secret name much as they have determined that national sentiments as interpreted which will free the heartless. Prin- not a penny of the ratepayers' by the eminent. Vicente Lopez and cess Turandot from her obligation money shall be spent on experiments set to music by Blas Parera. to give herself to the unknown
The with "instructional films."
Controversy recently arose over prince. The prince-it is not very children who attend the displays at the length of the hymn, which has noble on his part-tolerates this the Kingsway Hall will pay for their been considered too long for modern proceeding. After all, she is only admission. At the same time, the conditions, Attempts have been a slave, and he is very much in love attention of educationists has been made before Congress to shorten it, with Turandot. drawn onue again to the theoretical and it is presumably to this cause Liu prefers death-for she is very problem of the real value of the film that the disturbances were duc. much in love with the prince. This in education.
The anthem, which consists of five self-sacrifice strikes the princess's verses and a chorus, records the fancy. In fact, her heart begins to Independence Declaration on July thaw. 9, 1816, whose anniversary was cele brated in London and at many of the Argentine gatherings elsewhere on Saturday.
Buenos Aires, July 10. Modification of the Argentine National Anthem which has been approved by the Government has The pagodas and gorgeous clothes given rise to popular portests, and lurid lighting did their share marring the enthusiasm of the na-in giving a fanciful air to this tional festival to-day.
operatic fairy tale.
Yesterday there were slight dis-j A rather cruel fairy tale, "Turan- turbancea, and this afternoon stu- dot" goes one better than "Tosca." dents led a hostile demonstration The celebrated torturing of the hero in front of Government House. In "Tosch" took place off stage. A Mounted police charged the few shrieks were beard, and that crowd, causing confusion, during was about all. Mankind enjoys which many received injuries. having its blood curdled. "Tosca"
Mr. Brigstocke's Theory. In a talk I had (writes a corres pondent) with Professor Campag Bac, of the Education Department of. Liverpool University, and Mr. We O. Brigstocke, his assistant. a highly original theory was pro pounded which has some bearing on the present situation. Mr. Brig- stocke, who has for some years "combined." as he puts it, "an Inter- est in philosophy with an interest in films," both in England and America not to say Hollywood itself, made some stringent criticisms on as we know "Instructional films,"
them at present, but indicated at the same time a plan by which they might be made into an important ad- dition to the teacher's apparatus.
He classified the present so-called. "educational films," as either of "The Land of Hope and Glory. or the immensely magified mosquito type," many of which he thought the could hardly compete with Sunday School at its dullest. Now the evolution of the educational film ought, in his opinion, to be part and parcel of the general evolution} of the film. If there is to be any advance at all, it will be from sim- ple photography to composition. Al present the ordinary film is a photo- graphic record of something that happened or might have happened. It is not in any real sense the con- fession of a mind, but the confes- sion of a camera, and unless your film is in some way filtered through an energetic mind, there can be no unity, no genuine expression, no,art. Whether the artist can ever succeed in expressing himself in this medium is still problematic; but if he took the trouble, the teacher could (Mr. Brigstocke thinks) begin now. In the beginning It would be necessary to employ the technique which produces Felix the Cat.
The following is the text of the first verse and the chorus:
Listen, O mortals, to the sacred
cry,
Liberty, Liberty, Liberty. Hark to the sound of broken
chains.
Gaze upon the throne of Noble
Equality.
Already have the United Pro
vinces of the South. Set up their throne of dignity, And the freedom of the world
respond:
"To the Great Argentine People, .. Hail!"
Chorus.
May the laurels be eternal Which we know how to gain. Crowned with glory may we live, Or swear to die a glorious death.
Einstein; and the Zoo simultaneouB- ly."
Professor Burt's Comments, Professor Cyril Burt, of the Lon- don Day Training College, asked his opinion of Mr. Brigstocke's suggen
tion, said, a
When at the end she is in a posi- tion to send the prince to the block, as she had sent all the other auftors, she thinks better of it, and admits the power of love. The two, then live happily ever after. But is this a very pretty tale? "Happily ever after" Do not we hope that their love will be polsoned for ever after by the thought of the cruelty by which it was gained?
Barbaric Music. "Turandot" differs from all the other Puccini operas in that the which touching "heart interest" made the fortune of the others is here altogether overshadowed by the spectacle and by a strident, bar- baric music. The spectacle was glittering, and the music was clever for what it set out to do, but "Turandot" is not likely to take the affections of the world like "Butter- fly" or "Bohéme."
The reception by a brilliant house was very warm, in spite of a årst interval that W18 considerably longer than the first act.
BRITISH TALENT IN OPERA.
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FRIDAY, AUGUST 26, 1927.
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The custom of speaking of a sea- son of "International"?" opera at Covent Garden has created an im- pression that British talent has very little scope in these performances, "An expert committee of educa- but this idea is entirely erroneous. tion made a minute examination of The orchestra, numbering 100, is en- the virtues in theory and practice tirely British. The chorus,
Not bering about 60, includes many of a film about a stickleback. unnaturally their report lacked en-members of the British National An LC.C. committee Opera Company, and since the be- thusloam. which went into the findings of the ginning of March a chorus master other committee were equally with- from Covent Garden has been tour- out enthusiasm. Surely the time ing with that company especially has come now for a similar commit- to rehearse the various choruses for tec-If only a philanthropist would the coming season. The choruses HONGKONG HEIGHTS. provide the money-actually to for some of the operas to be pro- produce the kind of film that would duced will be reinforced by a email "Felix" and Architecture. be valuable as an example and an contingent of singers from Italy or Without going deeply Into the ideal. In the psychological labora- Germany, but these will not average matter it is easy to see that moving tory of Professor Spielman at Uni- more than 10 singera a performance. drawings should make brilliant versity College, there is a projector. In the list of principal artists there 18 British names. Interna- teachers. A few concrete examples an expert operator, and all the are indicate the possiblitics of the idea. necessary equipment with which the tional Opera" means, therefore, How clearly, for instance, as Mr. effect of such a film on the children very large volume of employment Brigstocke suggested, could Felix who saw it could actually be tested. for British hands. The stage ser- illustrate in a film such difficult Such an investigation would be in vices, and the services In other conceptions ns that of thrust in valuable. It is tantalising to think parts of the opera house, require a architecture! Suppose he turned; of all the time we have lost when personnel of nearly 200 people. two other Felixes futo pillars at his; there are such possibilities in the These are facts which have a parti- side, and then constructed a Felix use of the cinema. Mr. Brigstocke, cular interest at the moment, when arch. It would be easy and amus-illustrates those possibilities bril the future of Covent Garden hangs in the balance. They explain in part ing for the teacher-artist to show liantly. stresses and how they could be met. "We live in a moving world; our why the coat of efficiently produced You would see the arch sagging at thoughts are moving. Relations in grand opera is high, and they sug- the knees or wherever it would sag, movement, as opposed to static re- gest that if grand opera, is to be Gothic cathedrals, which demon- lations, are precisely those which continued without private subsidy, strated in the sight of all men where are hardest to understand or to ex- some means of suplementing box they were weak and where they plain; and here the cinema can help office receipts is indispensable. A
working arrangement with the Bris per were strong, by bending writhing, us, There is a danger that in and even falling down, promise in mechanicalised age men and wo- tish Broadcasting Company might finite amusement.
as solve the problem. The subscrip- men cense to use their eyes eagerly as they might; perhaps use tion list to date, nearly six weeks of the cinema might counteract it before the season begins, amounts It might even-particularly in the to more than three times that of the case of the suggested Felix on Ar- whole subscription to the first Lon chitecture film-help in the deve- don Opera Syndicate's season in lopment of taste; It might help one, 1925, and the increase is shown in for instance, to see a building as a all parts of the house. The amphi- tendency, as much as a solid mass theatro stalls were almost entirely subscribed for within a week of the of bricks."
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In the same way, what could not be done with maps? Let Felix be taken up to a great height and let him behold all the kingdoms of the world, with their pomps, and vani ties, not to speak of their trade and transport; then drop him a given number of feet, or let him use up one of his nine lives and drop him all the way; in this manner it would Professor Dover Wilson said that be easy literally to see what scale he thought some experiment, such means, both in space and time as Mr. Brigstocke had suggested,
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