The brilliant success of Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel, in which Wagnerian technique is applied to the diatonic style of nursery songs with a humorous accuracy undreamed of by Wagner's imitators, points a moral which would have charmed Wagner himself; but until the revival of some rudiments of musical common sense becomes widespread, there is little prospect of the influence of Wagner's harmonic style being productive of anything better than nonsense. [Please select]
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"Come, Hansel," said the father, "don't loiter so, sonny." [Please select]
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"See, Gretel," cried Hansel joyfully, "there is food for us in plenty." [Please select]
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"Now," said Hansel, "we will leave the witch's wood behind us as fast as we can." [Please select]
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"How can we cross," said Hansel, "for there is no bridge anywhere." [Please select]
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Grethel wept bitterly, and said to Hansel, "What will become of us." [Please select]
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