JUDY ADAMS
The Philadelphia Orchestra and conductor Eugene Ormandy is an esemble which ranks between first and fifth in the world depending on personal taste. Wednesday April 23, they appeared at Masonic Auditorium and played a program of Wagner (with the exception of Beethoven’s seventh).
JUDY ADAMS
Double Concerto in F for two
Harpsichords
Allegro
Largo
allegro Assai
Concerto in B Flat for Cello
Allegretto
Adagio
Allegro Assai
A PROGRAM OF WAGNER . . . by Judy C. Adams
The Philadelphia Orchestra and conductor Eugene Ormandy is an esemble which ranks between first and fifth in the world depending on personal taste.
Wednesday April 23, they appeared at Masonic Auditorium and played a program of Wagner (with the exception of Beethoven’s seventh).
Their first number was prelude to “Die Meistersigner von Nurnberg”. It opened magnificently with the arrogant theme which soared into a sonorous climax. The medieval tune pf the following theme, a march, was so authentic, you could almost picture a 15th century calvary parading across the stage.
The second piece on the program was from the opera (“Das Rheingold” in which Ormondy utilized every effect possible to convey the story of the powerful Rhinegold). Wagner himself employed instruments that would in many cases merely have a part consisting of a few notes, (tube, harps, celeste, the triangle).