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Hutchinson, Hubbard | May 21, 1930 issue

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This article presents information on the operas to be staged at the Metropolitan Opera House on April 22, 1930 such a convocation of talent as has rarely been assembled in this city for one enterprise. It produced, for a brief hour and a quarter, a brilliant and curious performance of very uneven merit. Musician Arnold Schonberg's opera presented, it seems, in a brief abstract form the vicissitudes of the human soul, horror-ridden by its own inadequacy, lifted for a time by hope, betrayed by the emptiness of material ambition to which it led, and finally sunk again under its original despair.

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OPERA; SCHONBERG, Arnold; DRAMATIC music; MUSICIANS; MUSIC; THEATERS
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