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SACKS?CO. lat fork &tuts March 21, 2012 Arts Jaw, egaua Isa. halm Dan Rom left, the. ingers David Pershali, Corey Rix and Lori Guitheou with OwAnwrioan Symphony Orchestra or CO/7legli Hall. From a Forgotten Composer, A Familiar Romantic Story It Is often clear why works that miters, suicide and attempted arts organizations might de- murder. scribe as forgotten gems have Grandly symphonic. the lush gathered dust. But Franz Romantic %Olt. which at times Schmidt's two-act opera "Na re echoes &aims. Strauss and Dame proved a Wagner, features surmise orches- VIVIEN worthy find during a vibrantcancers tral interludes, swirling strings. vivid melodiesand hefty Snick- SCHWEIlltE performance by nenan choruses, sung with pa- the Amencan nache here by the Collegiate Cho- Wade Symphony Or- rale. n vi(w chestra, conduct- Valium:leitmotifs appear ed by Leon Botstein. on Sunday throughout. Including Liturgical afternoon at Carnegie Halt music with organ for the Arch- The music of Schmidt. who was deacon, and rippling harp pas- born in H74 in what Is now Brati- sages for F.saterakta. the kind slava, Slovakia, was overshad- and innocent Gypsy whose owed in his bfeume by that of charms cause the down(all 01 her late-Romantic composers, includ- admire, N and her own death. The ing Mahler Schmidt W lush khan, orchestra sounded in fine form, Like Zemlinsky's, was deemed playing with a vigor and polish dowdy in early-20th-century Vi- that conveyed all the dramatic enna. and Schmidt's reputation arcs of this colorful piece. was later tainted by his support Some lengthy Wagnerian for the Nazis. monologues are has effective, Schmidt's music has recently and there is on overlong love been championed by conductors duel between Evnernkla and the including Franz Welser-Atelst and officer Phoebus. But a east of Fables Luigi, but has rarely teen strong singers helped make the performed outside Austria or case for this neglected work. Germany. The composer was a The rich-voiced baritone Ste- fine pianist and cellist vthostesel- plwn Powell sang with power and led composition with Bruckner In authority as the Archdeacon, and Vienna and was pnnetpal cellist the bass Bunth Bilgth performed in the Vienna Court Opera under expressively as Quasimodo. Lori Mahler's baton. His Hungarian Guilbeau wielded her kwely so- heritage can be discerned in his prano to fine d eth as Esmeralda. scow for 'None Dame." which The baritone David Pershall, the had its premiere in Vienna in tenors Robert Chain] and Corey 1914. Big, and the alto Mini Petty also Based on the Victor Hugo nov- sang well. el, with a libretto by Leopold Perhaps. as with the Zemin,- Wilk, the work certainly has plen- sky operas revival by Mr. Bot- ty of op ewatk ingredients: a stein, audiences will soon be able beautiful Gypsy. a hunchback, a to enjoy a staged thoduction of scorned spouse, love-struck ad- 'Notre Dame 427 west fourteenth street new york, sty 10014 I I I f I www.socksco.com EFTA01113080