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This article presents information on news related to theatrical music in the U.S. When Giacomo Puccini, who is undoubtedly the most popular of living opera composers, visited this country a few years ago, he attended a performance of "The Girl of the Golden West," by David Belasco, whose dramatic version of Luther Long's story, "Madame Butterfly," had served him as libretto for his last opera, the first American performance which he had crossed the ocean to superintend. Arthur Friedheim will give a recital at Mendelssohn Hall on Saturday afternoon, December 17. His programme will include the Liszt sonata. Two special Wagner concerts will be given by Lillian Nordica and the New York Symphony Orchestra, Walter Damrosch conducting, in Carnegie Hall, on January 4 and 11. |
