Thomas Beecham

A MINGLED CHIME 彩華に響くチャイム 27. SECOND RUSSIAN OPERA SEASON ２７．２度目のロシア歌劇公演期間 303 The striking success of the first Russian season made inevitable the return of the company for the summer of 1914, and it was the joint ambition of Diaghileff and myself to make of it something that London had never known…

A MINGLED CHIME 26. A PROVINCIAL ADVENTURE 後半 298 It was not to Sheffield only that we were indebted for a grain of that comic relief which is as welcome to the artist working at top pressure as much as to any man. Another great city in the county of broadacres furnished a lively contribution to our…

A MINGLED CHIME 彩華に響くチャイム 26. A PROVINCIAL ADVENTURE ２６．地方公演で頑張る 294 For some years past an opera company had been visiting the principal cities of the provinces under the direction of a Swiss-German whose headquarters were in Edinburgh, the tour taking place in the autumn and lasting usually thirte…

A MINGLED CHIME 25 . FIRST RUSSIAN OPERA SEASON 後半 291 An extra performance of Boris had been arranged for the dual purpose of enabling the Royal Family to see it and giving the chorus a Benefit; and it was reported that Chaliapin intended to make a present to his humbler colleagues of his salary fo…

A MINGLED CHIME 彩華に響くチャイム 24. STRAUSS AND STRAVINSKY ２４．シュトラウスとストラヴィンスキー 275 During this time I had lost touch with my friends of the censorship at St. James’s Palace, but upon the announcement of a new Strauss opera they entered the scene again. As I had genuinely enjoyed my previous dealings with …

A MINGLED CHIME 23 . A VISIT TO BERLIN 後半 269 During the summer the Russian Ballet reappeared, repeating its spectacular success of the previous year and depreciating even further the already dubious credit of the operatic side of the season. Decidedly the stock of the music drama was on the decline…

22. The Coming of the Russian Ballet 後半 258 The London season which was now in full swing was running its normally placid course when, like a visitation from another plane, there burst upon it the Russian Ballet. As rapidly as Byron won fame was the artistic section of the town taken by storm, peopl…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dnn9npQZPk&t=36s 本スクリプトの動画はこちらからどうぞ Thomas Beecham: lecture on music held in US (1960) I see ladies and gentlemen that according to this announcement, I am to give you a lecture. I want to make it clear at the outset that I could not possibly give a lecture in one ho…

A MINGLED CHIME 彩華に響くチャイム 40. RECOVERY ４０．復活に向けて 453 Up to this moment I had known very little of Louis Nicholas. Although I had met him on various occasions during the past four or five years, it was always in company with others, executors and lawyers who were, so to speak, on the other side of th…

A MINGLED CHIME 39 . DISASTER 後半 450 The misguided creatures who had forced the order, and whose claims amounted to no more than a fraction of this mountain of apparent indebtedness, were literally overwhelmed by it and perhaps for the first time realized the fatuity of their action. For the officia…

A MINGLED CHIME 彩華に響くチャイム 38 . THE '‘WINDS OF COMPLICATION” ３８．面倒な風向きに 430 The termination of the war and the return to peace conditions added considerably to the costs of running an opera company. While the struggle continued I had almost a monopoly of the services of a substantial proportion of th…

A MINGLED CHIME 彩華に響くチャイム 36 . THE RETURN OF PEACE ３６．終戦 410 We had now reached the spring of 1918, and our operatic performances began to be disturbed more and more by air raids. During one week a bomb killed the stage-door keeper of the Aldwych Theater, another wrecked the premises of a publishing…

A MINGLED CHIME 34 . MUSIC VERSUS NATIONALITY 後半 393 A quasi-novelty was an English version of Ivan the Terrible, which is by way of being a companion piece to the beautiful La Fiancee du Czar, which I gave many years later. Both of them are unduly neglected, hut it may he that performed by a compan…

A MINGLED CHIME 彩華に響くチャイム 34 . MUSIC VERSUS NATIONALITY ３４．音楽と国民性・愛国心とのせめぎあい 388 The unexpected death of my father, due to heart weakness, deeply affected me. Out relationship had been a strange one; outwardly there was an apparent formality, but inwardly an actual sympathy, almost an affinity betwe…

A MINGLED CHIME 彩華に響くチャイム 33. AN UNEXPECTED LOSS ３３．予期せぬ喪失 375 It was during the same summer that I received an invitation to attend a meeting in Birmingham summoned to consider the best way of forming a municipal orchestra. It was surprising that what had proved impossible in peace time should be r…

A MINGLED CHIME 彩華に響くチャイム 25 . FIRST RUSSIAN OPERA SEASON ２５．初めてのロシア歌劇公演期間 285 June came round bringing with it the Russian Opera Company and for the opening performances Drury Lane was by no means full, although this was the first appearances in England of Chaliapin. There is a belief, which must b…

A MINGLED CHIME 彩華に響くチャイム 22. THE COMING OF THE RUSSIAN BALLET ２２．ロシア・バレエ団がやってくる 253 I ended the year 1910 in a very different mood from that in which I had begun it. I had plunged head foremost into the operatic arena under the cheerful conviction that I had only to present any work of fair renown …