OPERATIC FOUNTAINS
Illuminated fountains are as popular abroad as fireworks displays, and now inventive man has gono a step further (says a London "Daily Chronicle" writer). At Aachen, in Germany, near the Belgian frontier, a new fountain, lit from underneath) accompanies the orchestra, and the music is interpreted by the coloured jets, which rise anc fall in rhythm with the violins and brasses. The inventor is Willy Jungbecker, an officer in the former German navy. He derived the idea from playing a gramophone in a U-boat. The music dramas of Wagner lend themselves best to this aquatic treatment. Take "Das Bbeingold." Each motif is given a colour. The Rhine maidens' music is yellow. Wotan is royal purple. Siegfried is blue, Loke is rpd, Ertla is green. So, as the orchestra weaves Hie musical fabric, the man .it the switchboard follows by playiDg the colours and regulating tho sprays with tho crescendo of the score. From all over "Europe, people are journeying to watch the fountain music in t'bo city of Charlemagne.
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 100, 2 May 1929, Page 17
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171OPERATIC FOUNTAINS Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 100, 2 May 1929, Page 17
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