(Continued)
Part II
THE ORCHESTRA
Siegfried's Ordeal ('Siegfried')
Prelude and First Scene, Act III ('Lohengrin')
MIRIAM LICETTE:
Elsa WALTER WIDDOP: Lohengrin
ARMED with his magic sword, Siegfried fights and cuts his way through the flames that for many yenrs have encircled a high roek at the top of which sleeps Brünnhilde. waiting for the hero who will brave the ordeal and waken her to be his bride.
THE knight Lohengrin, having come to the aid of Elsa, that wrongly-accused maiden, has married her, though he has never told his name. The Prelude to the third Act strikes the note of the festivity that follows en the marriage. Then the curtain goes up en the bridal procession. After the rich procession of ladies and nobles has gone, there is a love duet of great beauty. Elsa urges her husband to tell her his name, and whence he comes, but he gently refuses.
Then there is a dramatic interruption. Count Frederick, who accused Elsa of the murder of her brother, bursts in, with some cf his nobles. Lohengrin kills him, and the others submit themselves to the knight. At the end of the scene, Lohengrin bids Elsa's ladies attire her for a meeting with him before the king. at which he will answer her questions. Elsa is left in sadness at the tragedy she has beheld.
THE ORCHESTRA
Good Friday Music (' Parsifal Imperial March
THE Good Friday Music from Parsiful is an episode of peace and beatitude amid the scenes of strife and anguish of Wagner's sacred music-drama. Parsifal, the hero, has won a great victory over sin and enchantment for himself and for the woman Kundry; they and Gurnemanz, an attendant on the Holy Grail, join in colloquy by the wayside.