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Richard Strauss has loomed, forced himself. large on our Landon musical stage during the fornight that has just ended. He has appeared as the conductor of his own and Mozart's music, as the composer of “Rosen- kavaller" and "Ariadne," as the
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to construct "la- buriously mammoth edifices of realism and ugliness. Now that taste has changed, their defects are obvious to the verlest tyro, for i there is one aestheid fashion that always passes quickly and appears particularly repulsive it the fashion for Mr.A. M. Lyons, K.C. (Leicester, realism. The true fundamental E. U.), moved an amendment to quality of Strauss at his best la the effect that desertion should not shown, I maintain, in half a dozen be regarded as a round for lovely songs, large portions of divorce. If the deserted party had "Rosenkavalier," a few pages in received maintenance or a settle- "Ariadne," the early tone-poem. | ment. ;\
hero (I hope unconscious) of one ¦ afterwards of the most terrifying operatic schemes ever suggested the pro- posal to give "Salome" and "Elektra" on the same evening
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Let me hasten to say. at once that his visit was welcome, that it was right that honour should be "Don Juan." His mastery of the Mr. Lyons said that desertion paid to one who, whatever your grotesque, probably in fact his alone would make it easy for the personal views on his compositions, | most original contribution to musl-parties to fake grounds for divorce. tempina one of the three out-cal literature, finds its best ex- standing agures in contemporary pression in "Tyl Eulenspiegel," music, that we are all delighted which is certainly the most per that he is said to have enjoyed haps the sole, perfect essay in or- himself. But having said this chestral composition that he
achieved. It is a veritable mas- terpiece and in it Strauss will, I hope, survive to delight future generations.
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that Strauss as a composer in- spires me with no confidence. much less enthusiasm.
During the odd twenty-Ave years of my musico-critical career there have been two major reputations
the
MEYERBEER HIS LEADER What is likely to happen to minor réputations are. of Richard Strauss in the course of course, without number which musical history is well known by have waxed and waned. First, the what has happened to another reputation
greater composer who of Scriabin which, I and far am glad to say. has waned almost shared many of his characteristics
Meyerbeer. - Meyerbeer.
like to nothing. be, being now re- cognised for what in fact be al-Strauss, commanded for years the of Europe's Intelli- ways was a composer of attrac-allegiance tive plano places whose efforts to rentals, a more certain allegiance and for a greater number of years. Like Strauss he was a first-class man of business, determined and
write in the grand manner re- sembled nothing so much as those of the frog in the fable. Second,
the reputation of Strauss which, deservedly, has not waned to the
same extent, but is very markedly less than it used to be. In this country at any rate Bibelius reigns, unquestioned, in his stead.
THE GERMAN TRADITION
able to use his power to present his works in the most favourable manner possible. Like Strauss he was a master of effect, of or- chestral experiment Like Strauss he excelled in the elaboration of unessential detalls, in an intellec- Busty which in reality was not
Up to the time of the war Rl-musical intellectuality at all; but chard Strauss was the acknow- something extra-musical Kor ex-
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Sir Terence Q'Connor, K.C. (Solicitor-General), said that the amendment was an attempt to in- traduce an entirely new type and definition of desertion.
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collusion?
DEFINITION OF CRUELTY
Mr. J. R. H. Cartland (King's Norton U.) moved to delete the lines which make cruelty a ground for divorce. He thought that the definition was far too wide, and suggested that at a later stage they should make provision in regard to the grosser forms of cruelty.
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Some people, like the writer, pre- Most important of all, like Strauss, ferred the comparatively minia- his fundamental musical inspira- ture genius of Debussy which tion was very noticably short- seemed to us more elegant and winded, though people raved over distinguished, but Birauss remain- the duet in "The Huguenots" more ed the embodiment of the great excitedly even than they raved German tradition. The purple of over the trio in the last act of Richard Wagner sat regally on his shoulders. True the wicked- ap- The difference between the twa borism: "If Richard, why
"YER,” replied many members, men is that Meyerbeer was one of Wagner; if Strauss, why not the great originators of the very
and Mr. Strauss said that if Mr. Johann?" had, I believe, already movement which Strauss was des- Crossley would go with him one day been coined, but it was "whispered tined to close. Inevitably, there-to the Courts he would find that with bated breath, as a man might fore, Meyerbeer invented more, they took a great deal of trouble.
The amendment was rejected. whisper a notorious heresy during; alike as regards aesthetic and pro- a cathedral service. All the more cedure. Even this has not saved intellectual and advanced music him. Much of Rossini may be critics wrote pages of laborious moribund, but Rossini, favoured by prose to demonstrate the pro- the public rather than by the fundity of his (and their) thought. specialists, is alive and kicking All the clever young men found compared with poor, excessively
of the maligned Meyerbeer. So, I pro agreeable alternative then fashionable pastime of 11g-phesy, it will be with Strauss and saw puzzles in dissecting and put Puccini. A composer like the lat- ting together again the various ter, who relles exclusively on must- motifs of his more complex sym-cal means to achieve his objects, phonic poems, the cerebral process even if his inspiration be often of being much the same in both a secondary order, is always. In a cases. The premiere of a Strauss better position to withstand the opera was an event of European onslaughts of time. * importance a la Salzburg.
Since the war, however, all this has changed, the "Alpine Sym phony" having led most of the younger and even some of the middle-aged musicians to discover the essential vacuity of works such as "The Domestic Symphony" and "Thus Space Zarathustra," pre- tentious monuments of 's musical Bleges Allee.. Even works, de- Anitely superior, such as "A Hero's Life" and "Don Quixote" are now admired, when they are admired, for the ingenuity of their texture or their orchestration rather than for the originality or beauty of the fundamental musical ideas The operas are perhaps in even worse case. With the possible ex- ception of "Frau ohne Schatten" every one of them has been, in varying degrees," a failure. "Ara-
ed to leave Madrid at once and will, of the marriage." Mr. Herbert ex- bella," "Aegyptische Helena"! Who depart from the capital before plained that it made no difference would recognise in these any trace Wednesday. The embassy staff crafted the Bill liked to be tidy and whatever, but the experts who of the charm of touch which des will leave Madrid on Thursday and pite prolixity and obvious aesthe the Embassy will then be trans amendment (Laughter.) the national Lappo movement,
attached some importance to the tic shortcomings, make of "Rosenferred to Valencia, because, so the
The Solicitor-General said that it Kosola, had died of 'poisoning kavaller one of the world's few metal statement points out, there was usual where they had a cer- gained some substantiation when really successful operas? In short, is no likelihood that the Red gov tuin form of words in one Act and the Court chemist, upon examining in Stock Exchange jargon, Richard Strausses now stand at a very low exament will return to Madrid they were going to embody the the contents of Kosola's stomach. level, and show no signs of going end in view of the increasing same idea in another Act, to use found traces of arsenic. better. Rather, the opposite.
difficulties which. provisioning
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- Mr. Cartland.—On the contrary I fancy, laying two to one odds that disagree. If I lived in a neigh- in the year 1986, three minutes of bourhood or family where nsticuffs One Piano Puccini's music will be played for the usual form of argument, then every minute of Strauss's music, obviously I should not put so much It there are any takers, my execu-weight on a black eye-(laughter) tors shall be duly instructed to paymused to it.
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BRITISH EMBASSY IN MADRID
London, Dec. 28.
Bir Arnold Wilson (Hitchin, U.), for the promoters," appealed to the mover to withdraw the amendment
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Mr. Cartland, eventually agreed to withdraw the amendment
The British Embassy in Madrid
There was considerable amuse- win shortly be closed, according to
ment and a wordy debate on 'an an official announcement here, which adds that 120 British fugi amendment by Mrs. Tate (Frome. U) to alter the phrase "Blace the Lives who sought refuge in the marriage" to "Since the celebration Embassy building have been warn-
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Helsingfors, Dec. 28. Sensational rumours. concerning the possibility that the leader of
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made in Madrid while in Valencia Major Colfox (Dorset, W., U.).—I movement. Ajan Suunta, declares: To be honest, I must admit pre- the presence of the British waż.../trougly object to the insertion of that the accurate solution of the
E useless word.
case is dificult since the nurse Opponents forced a division and who attended Kosols up to the the amendment was carried by 18 time of his death herself died on
December 22 of pneumonia. rutes to 11.
The Committee then adjourned.
judice. I never counted myself ships is affording the guarantee among the admirers of Strauss, that the embassy will not suffer and the satisfaction of being able from want, as the warships may to say "I told you so" cannot easily be drawn upon in case of need: beatified in the human breast. The International Relief Bureau Strauss seemed to me then, as he maintained at the British Embassy seems to me now, an insurable senn Madrid will eventually be taken timentalist with a curious leaning over by the League of Nations Spain will however, remain in towards the grotesque, who, from which, however, so far has merely direct contact with the British conviction or from mere desire to asked for a report The private Emba satisfy the tastes of this day, has British relief. organisations in
The State Investigation is pro- gressing, however, and experts are being called in to assist in the further examination of Kosola's vital organs. The funeral WRE held yesterday in Lappo Tramanesan News Arrance,