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Music
Haggin, B. H. | October 2, 1929 issue

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The stream of music that used to flow out of Vienna, Austria, is now hardly a trickle, but the performances of existing music have not diminished in quantity, and in six months the author witnessed performances of opera, poorly set and staged, which were worth traveling to hear. Not, the author agrees, for the singing; but certainly as products of the entire ensemble of orchestra, chorus, and singers governed by the conductor. The Vienna Opera ensemble is in the position of an orchestra with a foundation of good strings and brass but poor solo woodwinds; as in most Continental cities there are only a few first rate voices, the rest ranging from mediocre to, in one or two cases, downright atrocious.

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MUSIC; ORCHESTRA; CONDUCTORS (Music); MUSICIANS; VIENNA (Austria); AUSTRIA
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