Programme . preme mastery of stagecraft. Thefew pages in the last scene of Iphigenie en Tauride where the sisterand brother meet before the sacrificial altar is one of the most magni-ficent examples of concentration possible to be found. Since we havelikened Gluck to Moussorgsky in one particular,—a comparison whichthe events of the moment make a natural one,—this scene may serveto point a difference. For neither Moussorgsky nor any of the nine-teenth-century Russians seems to have mastered concentration as apart of stage technique; and indeed it is difficult to think of any one,except, perhap
Programme . preme mastery of stagecraft. Thefew pages in the last scene of Iphigenie en Tauride where the sisterand brother meet before the sacrificial altar is one of the most magni-ficent examples of concentration possible to be found. Since we havelikened Gluck to Moussorgsky in one particular,—a comparison whichthe events of the moment make a natural one,—this scene may serveto point a difference. For neither Moussorgsky nor any of the nine-teenth-century Russians seems to have mastered concentration as apart of stage technique; and indeed it is difficult to think of any one,except, perhaps, Verdi in his latest operas, who wielded that weaponwith the absolute certainty of Gluck. But comparisons and contrastsof this kind can only be appreciated when the works are put side by sideupon the stage. It may not be too much to hope, in a season whichhas given us Wagner, Mozart, Verdi, and Moussorgsky, that anotherwill add Gluck, who was the predecessor, if not actually the progenitor,of them NOW $1975 to $^275 THE IDEAL CLOSED CAR •READY WHENEVER YOU ARE E. Y. STIMPSON, 650 Beacon StreetBack Bay 3230
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