The Frenchman composed Jeux for the Ballets Russes in 1911-12, after getting excited by Stravinsky’s Petrushka. He decided to go one better bur went too far for public tolerance. Jeux never really caught on, partly […]
Se in 14th-century Siena, Italy, Francesco Cilea’s opera Gloria, performed here in its 1932 revised edition, contains the tragic story of two lovers caught up in a conflict (between the Guelphs and the Ghibellines: of […]
This one he wrote for Piatigorsky. It makesits first appearnce in the 1946 film, Deception. The post Watch the other Korngold concerto appeared first on Slippedisc.