Re: [Finale] OT: goats in opera

[Hans Swinnen]

Having conducted this show over 100 times in my own country, the  
Netherlands and Germany, I'd like adjusting some facts. The score is  
right here on my desk.


"At the White Horse Inn" isn't an operetta in the Vienna tradition  
like Strauss or Léhàr, but, according the score, a "Singspiel", also  
a musical play. There are originally four (!) composers involved:  
Ralph Benatzky, Robert Stolz, Bruno Granichstaedtchen and Robert  
Gilbert. Stolz gave the most Viennese character by his well known  
songs, e.g. "Die ganze Welt ist himmelblau" (the whole world is blue  
like the sky), "Mein Liebeslied muß ein Walzer sein" (my love song  
has to be a Waltz) and 2 others. Gilbert wrote "Was kann der  
Sigismund dafür" (it isn't Sigismund's fault that he's that beauty)  
and from Granichstaedtchen käm "Zuschau'n kann i net" (I can not stay  
beside and look) - (My english translations of the song titles are  
very free and personal, please excuse me) -
Benatzky has set up the score in 1929-1930. First performance in  
Berlin on 8th november 1930. It was the first marriage between the  
American musical in the Vienna tradition.
After WW II a fifth composer (Hans Frankowski) came up with a more  
modern, more "jazzy" score for a new movie with Peter Alexander,  
which was released in 1958.
This version is still performed, be it mostly by amateurs in the  
Netherlands.


By these mish-mash from composers and therefore styles, I don't like  
to speak of a masterpiece due to a lack of uniformity, but I agree,  
some chorus settings are great! And it was a big success in Western  
Europ, including England if my memory is correct. But I doubt that it  
should have survived without the songs by Robert Stolz.


BTW: according the libretto comes the emperor in the 3d act and  
that's no nonsense, because in Austria, at the Sankt Wolfgang Sea  
exists really a big hotel wit this very name (Im weißen Rößl) and  
it's historically correct that the Austrian Emperor Franz-Josef Iº  
has stayed several times in this house.


Concerning the goat:
There is a scene in the Alps (2d act) where one of the vest  
manufacturers (named Gieseke) has to run away for a he-goat. So, this  
can't be the mentioned country girl. I suppose the maid in question  
must be the post woman.


Hans
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You will excuse me for any typo's due to a visual handicap


Op 05-mei-07, om 06:49 heeft Mark D Lew het volgende geschreven:

Benatzky. Properly the title is "AT the White Horse Inn" ("Im  
weissen Rössl"). Large-scale operetta in the style of Léhar, J  
Strauss, Kálmán, etc.


The usual operetta plotlines set at an über-quaint retreat  
somewhere in the Austrian alps.  Luscious score with an abundance  
of melody.  I don't remember a goat, but I vaguely recall there was  
a bucolic country-girl character, so I assume it was hers.


mdl
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Re: [Finale] Playback question

[Ken Moore]

Brennon Bortz<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

I agree that this is an issue with HP. 
Most of the predefined styles (selected in

the dropdown list in the playback controls
window) include a rit. in the last bar of
a piece.  I haven't found a way to still
use HP with one of these predefined styles
and have the choice to observe this rit.
or not.[...]


True, but you can select "custom", select the style that you
wish to use as a basis and remove features you don't want.  I
suspect this one is "final bar"

--
Ken Moore

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[Finale] Mass Relink

[A-NO-NE Music]

Reposting:

Is there any way to relink all the chords throughout the score and the
parts in one shot?

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- Hiro

Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Boston, MA
 


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Re: [Finale] OT: goats in opera

[Mark D Lew]

On May 12, 2007, at 2:43 AM, Hans Swinnen wrote:

Having conducted this show over 100 times in my own country, the  
Netherlands and Germany, I'd like adjusting some facts. The score  
is right here on my desk.


Thanks very much for this info, Hans!

mdl
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[Finale] Mid-measure repeat plug-in

[Barbara Touburg]

A while ago,I reported that the split measure plugin did not work 
("possibly due tho the rhythmical structure of the music", in a 4/4 time 
signature). Just now, I discovered that the mid-measure repeat plugin 
says exactle the same. Could both errors be related? I suppose they are. 
Is there a solution?


W2000 SP4
FinWin 2007


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Re: [Finale] Mass Relink

[Christopher Smith]

On May 12, 2007, at 9:46 AM, A-NO-NE Music wrote:



Reposting:

Is there any way to relink all the chords throughout the score and the
parts in one shot?



I don't think so, but this isn't bad...

In Mac, in Scroll View at the smallest zoom you can manage (say 5%,  
you get most of the score on one screen, depending on the length)  
select the Chord Tool, set to Manual Input, command-A (select all)  
then hit cmd-opt-sh L.


Christopher


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Re: [Finale] OT: goats in opera (was Can you spot the fake?)

[Aaron Rabushka]

Sounds kind of like the operettas I saw in Olomouc--"Polská Krev" and "Perly
Panny Serafiny." Greet fun, esp for the local croud that sang and clapped
along with the finales. Some great singers, although no animals that I
remember.

Aaron J. Rabushka
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From: "Mark D Lew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Saturday, May 12, 2007 12:49 AM
Subject: Re: [Finale] OT: goats in opera (was Can you spot the fake?)


> On May 11, 2007, at 4:30 PM, Aaron Rabushka wrote:
>
> > Nope, no jacket, just a goat. This "White Horse Inn" is a new one on
> > me--does it call for horses, too?
>
> Benatzky. Properly the title is "AT the White Horse Inn" ("Im weissen
> Rössl"). Large-scale operetta in the style of Léhar, J Strauss,
> Kálmán, etc.
>
> The usual operetta plotlines set at an über-quaint retreat somewhere
> in the Austrian alps.  Luscious score with an abundance of melody.  I
> don't remember a goat, but I vaguely recall there was a bucolic
> country-girl character, so I assume it was hers.
>
> mdl
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