At the Organ of The Classic Cinema
Songs by EILEEN CARROLL
' Do you collect Stamps ? About history on Stamps,' by MILES CURRAN
Violoncello solos by GETHYN WYKEHAM-GEORGE
More stories of ancient Greece told by AUNT ANNA
' The Adventures of Odysseus', Part I
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Conducted by PETER MONTGOMERY
Preciosa was a Spanish play, adapted from the novel by Cervantes, and needed music of a Spanish type to make it effective. Weber was asked to write the incidental music, for, though he had never been to Spain, he was known to be expert in manufacturing local colour. He had for example composed excellent music for Schiller's Turandot without having to go to China.
Weber was all the more agreeable to accept the commission since, having finished Der Freischütz, he was contemplating writing an opera on a Spanish subject, and had actually composed some of the numbers. For this purpose he had studied Spanish idioms and rhythms, so that the local colour was safe in his hands. He did, as a matter of fact, get the colour of Spanish music very effectively into the Preciosa music, introducing a number of gypsy rhythms and Spanish National melodies. The complete music of the play consists of an overture and eight other numbers, mostly choruses.
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