TURNTABLE TALK THE SUNDAY STAR E-5 tV'»*hltwnll, D q _ Sunday, Aran, is. is&s - Strauss 'Arabella' ; * iIBBIBkI * Makes Disc Debut 9B»T HI VPlh 4Pr,g> ir* By JAMES G. DEANE priately fill the eighth side. -Br /, v < % lL\ W —m '1 ¦Mr Itecord Critic Thf conductor here Is Karl W&7' Pi ’j, w MM ¦BL \fi|B H * <a >«r ¦¦•¦? A public which cut be »*- Boehm. ¦ *'* * * . ;•/ turned to have supposed until 'liffMp W IMHIT •4B Hr very recently that nothing STACK MUSIC W WW» r jfi v j/< Steam locomotives are A '• dHr ¦p- ' R| s M written by Richard Btrauac ¦ 4 bf'. I after 1910 (the year of “Der rare in the Eastern United Rosenkavaller”) could have States and are becoming m lltar IpJ BHLjfIHLO A much merit haa been learning rarer everywhere, a sad fact better. for rail enthusiasts. To the “Ariadne auf Naxos,’’ writ- initiate, the sound of pound- M ten in 1911, has been winning ing drive wheels and rushing recent favor on both side* steam Is music. iaaaißii& -1 of the Atlantic, Including Vinton Wright, a Western $& j» ft I tape .—«tJ- i *- here. "Die Schat- with a re- - IMHinr 1 > #^BHI >rau ohne rail fan LISA DELLA CASA ten," great, neglected corder and an eye to pos- v^--;"^>^^:^sk'-;^ff-; -: v^ the Sings "¦¦: 9* iTT operatic opus of 1919, re- terity, has been taking down Recorded Arabella cently created something of the sound of as many steam a sensation among record locomotives as possible for by Julie Andrews and Martyn few years. Some collectors, and substantial re- the last of Green. The record, appro- exoerpts the fruits of his efforts are corded from “Ara- priately. bella" (1933) and “Caprlcclo” on two Folkways discs, both is titled “Tell It (1941) have confirmed that called “stack music" sam- Again." A Kansas-born New late years brought no per- plers. On the first disc one York sidewalk musician ceptible decline In Btrauas’ can hear Upion Pacific known as Moondog com- operatic mastery. freight engines double-head- posed the accompaniments, There are also the eloquent ing through Nebraska, speed- for flute (played by Julius W j| “Four Last Songs,” completed ing passenger trains, and the Baker) and percussion. In 1949, and now available In UP’s “Big Boy," most pow- There is another virtually fine recorded editions. erful steam locomotive ever irresistible Angel disc which Now a full-length “Ara- built, whistling at a cross- amounts to a one-man show. ' bella” has been added to the ing. On the second record is Itcontains a dozen ballads by accumulating evidence. The an aural reconstruction of Stanley Holloway, the in- opera has been recorded by the complicated making up imitable parent of Albert London with a stellar cast of a Burlington freight Ramsbottom and the lady and the Vienna Philharmonic train. “with ’er ead tucked under- Orchestra. Someone to whom the air- neath ’er arm." The selec- j- |. *&$!& ,~'j It is a major event. Lisa plane and diesel locomotive tions are reprints of the 78- Della Casa, who has made a are simply signs of progress r.p.m. discs which first ac- specialty of the role of Ara- may see little of interest in quired celebrity in the ’3os. bella, sings captivatingly. such documents. But the A gently zany collection of Hilde. Oueden, as Zdenka; rail lover is likely to think songs about gnus, hippopot- '- satellite and * Otto otherwise. amuses. jflP » Edelmann as Waldner moons 'XW'T^t F\ ••¦ m 9HBI. * Hftbw. 'wcm WB WH| and George London as Man- ** * hi-fi systems is offered on dryka are hardly less Im- NONSENSE, ETC. another Angel record. The pressive, and the rest of the Record makers, like other performers are a British duo, J yPjS cast for the most part acquit people, tend to take them- Michael Flanders and Don- themselves commensurately. selves rather too seriously, ald Swann. Like most actual- The orchestra gets its full so it is a pleasure to en- performance discs, this one due from the microphones, counter occasional happy seems just lightly more fun and the recorded sound is lapses. for the built-in audience than well ordered, spacious and Angel has made a charm- for the living-room listener, full, a credit to Georg Solti, ing record of nursery rhymes, which is faintly annoying. the conductor, as well as the nonsense songs, lullabies and But the humor is pleasant. London technicians. other traditional - juvenilia, “At the Drop of a Hat” la 'COSI FAN TUTTE' IN REHEARSAL As for the opera Itself, it partly sung and partly spoken the identifying title. Cast, of opera conductor; 1 Is enchanting. As with “Ros- conductor and director Mozart’s comic to be Paul Callaway, Richard Baldridge, director; Mary enkavaller" and “Ariadne.” by the Opera Society of Washington in Lisner Audi- McMurray, Dorabella; John Reardon, Ouglielmo; Silvia Strauss luckily had a work- Svenrium tomorrow, Tuesday and Thursday, shown in an early Stahlman, Despina; Donald Gramm, Don Alfonso; Margot able libretto (again by the rehearsal with the National Symphony. Left to right are: Willauer, Fiorailigi; John McCollum, Ferrando. brilliant Hofmannsthal), and he wove It Into a musical Bo* tapestry richly filled with NEWS OF MUSIC beauties. gTbu'S itlC snatches of dramatic aong In Italy and Yugoslavia. To Tondon’s excellent printed F and turbulent recitative with depict the old Imperial Pal- helpfully supplies / orchestra far surpasses all Silvana's libretto a S-Hoy . Petersburg, marginal guide to the Intri- 52eo>m> other *of Mozart's works and ace in St. De 'Cosi' Is Realistic Laurentlis paid the Italian cate thematic patterns looks forward to a later ideal Into the musical Mate Won't govenment 85,000 day worked that abandons secco reci- a rent fabric. tative altogether for a con- for two weeks for use of the The fine Della Casa ren- Panorama of Life tinuous flow of orchestral Let Her Quit palace in this southern Ital- ditions of the “Four Last sound. previously By DAT THORPE apart from Mozart's other By STAN CARTER ian town built in the 18th Songs" available ¦Ur Mule Critic The of present century by 111 with some great operas? It is of course feature the Aj,Delated Proto Writer Charles of In a coupling suppose good thing quite production that will be Bourbon. excerpts appro- I it is ¦ different from “Ido- most CASERTA, Italy.—Sllvsna "Arabella" to try to speak dispassionate* meneo” and “Tito,” magnifi- surprising to the connoisseur Hay ly about music. Like every cent and serious embellish- of “Cosi fan tutte” will be the Mangano says she wants to other good thing, however, ments of basic and standard reappearance of tenor arias. quit the movies and just WASHINGTON CIVIC OPERA ASSOCIATION there can be an excess of dis- emotional situations. Its It is an odd fact that for at keep house—but her hus- Sponsored by passion. least a generation Ferrando and for me to write i characters have not the band, Producer de breadth nor the depth of has always been deprived of Dlno D. C. Recreation Dept. about “Cosi fan tutte" clin- Laurentiis, ically would be absurd if not those of “Figaro”; it is not a all his arias except “Un aura won’t let her. Presents ) Indecent. For me “Cosi,” in fairy-opera like “Zauber- amaroaa.” and his first-act “My contract with De Jacques Offenbach's company with six other flote.” nor a Byronic roman- duet with Guglielmo. In the Laurentiis has two more operas of Mozart, satiates the tic one like “Don Giovanni." NBC television “Cosi” last years to run. I’ve got to keep It shows .in every that week this disparagement of TALES OF HOFFMAN musical libido more com- detail working.” said tltian- pletely than any other music it is the work of a mature tenors was carried to. the the (IN ENGLISH) rather star- every of haired Italian actress. She FREDERICK FALL, DIRECTOR in the world. There have master than a limit and one Fer- spoke dressing MUSIC tlingly perfect in her room not been two weeks running effusion of a rando's arias was left out. I in the 1935, first young one. no less astounded can recall 23 productions of 1.200-room Caserns since when I ex- Royal Palace where she was MAY 8,9, 10 8:15 P.M. perienced the work in Glyn- and delighted than his au- the opera since 1935, and in on during dience—the impression every peculiar muti- location for her husband's ROOSEVELT debourne, which the we one some picture. AUDITORIUM get Entfuhrung of place. newest music has not been dancing from “Die aus lation Ferrando took said De Laurentiis,” 13th and ALLISON STS. N.W. through my head. For me, dem Serail." The key to "You More important than this, a visitor noted. “Don’t you (SI 52.50) say. great "Cosi” is its realism, its TICKETS .50, AT 3149 I«th ST. N.W.; DRUG FAIR, 1 “Cosi” and its six if I may judge from the re- call your husband by ItOt K N.W.; DRUG FAIR, 1245 - blindingly picture of his ST. FENNA. AVE. N.W.; sister works have been brilliant hearsals I have heard, is the first CO., a life in which everything is name?” DALE MUSIC 1240 GA, AVE.. SILVER SPRING, MD. friends, with the living indi- exhilarating brilliance yea—he's sharpest but and "At home, Dlno." vidualities of human beings seen in focus precision replied Mangano. only momentarily. Although of the ensemble Miss "but and the obsessive power of singing.