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Music
Adler, Lawrence | January 9, 1929 issue

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In his setting of Hauptmann's "Sunken Bell" Ottorino Respighi has attempted a task of Olympian difficulty. An Italian of Italians, he has bravely ventured into the domain of the allegorical and metaphysical, that land of the Meal which Wagner and Strauss coveted in "Parsifal" and "Zarathustra" and which, perhaps, only Debussy among the moderns has fully penetrated. For Hauptinann's play is a strangely romantic combination of folklore and Nietzschian philosophy and withal a wholly Germanic creation in mood and essence.

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SUNKEN Bell (Music); RESPIGHI, Ottorino, 1879-1936; PARSIFAL (Music); MUSIC; PERFORMING arts; FOLKLORE
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