1912 in Music - 1912 Musicals, 1912 Operas, 1912 Songs, Musical Groups Disestablished in 1912, Musical Groups Established in 1912 (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 36. Chapters: 1912 musicals, 1912 operas, 1912 songs, Musical groups disestablished in 1912, Musical groups established in 1912, Record labels established in 1912, Ariadne auf Naxos, Farewell of Slavianka, Filmzauber, Der ferne Klang, It's a Long Way to Tipperary, Lilac Domino, The Sunshine Girl, Blue Amberol Records, The Dancing Mistress, The Firefly, The Girl in the Taxi, Pro Arte Quartet, Hoheit tanzt Walzer, Ragtime Cowboy Joe, Nigger Blues, When Irish Eyes Are Smiling, Le Pays, My Melancholy Baby, On Moonlight Bay, When I Lost You, Der Zigeunerprimas, Roma, In the Garden, Die Brautwahl, St. Olaf Choir, Anoush, And the Green Grass Grew All Around, Aino, Mona, Be My Little Baby Bumble Bee, Rex Records, Hatano Jazz Band, Rochester Orchestra, Fargo-Moorhead Symphony Orchestra, Orfeon Records, If It Wasn't for the Irish and the Jews, Dossenbach Orchestra. Excerpt: Ariadne auf Naxos (Ariadne on Naxos) is an opera by Richard Strauss with a German libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal. The opera was originally conceived as a thirty-minute divertissement to be performed at the end of Hofmannsthal's adaptation of Moliere's play Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme. Besides the opera, Strauss provided incidental music to be performed during the play. In the end, the opera occupied ninety minutes, and the performance of play plus opera occupied over six hours. It was first performed at the Hoftheater, Stuttgart, on 25 October 1912. The director was Max Reinhardt. The combination of the play and opera proved to be unsatisfactory to the audience: those who had come to hear the opera resented having to wait until the play finished. The first version was produced in Zurich beginning on 5 December 1912 and Prague on 7 December 1912. The Munich premiere followed on 30 January 1913 in the old Residenztheater, a venue which was inferior for the presentation of...