Word: fledermaus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pierre Monteux clambered to the podium and picked up his baton; the orchestra swung into Strauss's Die Fledermaus. He romped them through an Enesco Rumanian Rhapsody and Ravel's Bolero, turned over his baton to a guest conductor. Then the fun & games began...
...removing them right in the middle of his performance. Once, during rehearsal, he became so enraged that he strode over to a violinist, snatched his violin, and crashed it over his head. He fought with his prima ballerina and when her fellow dancers stuck by her, he conducted Die Fledermaus without any ballet. Once he had to be searched out in a café minutes before curtain time...
Weighing a pound of waltzing mice [TiME, Dec. 9] is not so difficult as you seem to think. First, you play your mice a recording of Die Fledermaus, and when they begin waltzing, you turn down the volume and start reading to them out of Edmund Wilson's Memoirs of Hecate County. This puts the mice to sleep. So you gently place them upon a scale, couple by couple, until it shows a full pound. Then you turn up the volume, and the mice wake up and again go into their dance. Result: a pound of waltzing mice...
...Year's Eve program the Berlin City Opera included selections from Johann Strauss's frothy Fledermaus. Orchestra and vocalists, whirling through the three-quarter-time Second Finale, finally reached the lines...
...first act, though long, was enjoyable, highlighted by Miss MacWatters' capable singing of the "Laughing Waltz," a difficult but novel arrangement of the Die Fledermaus motif. A lyric, "Who Knows," was the only outstanding original song and is destined most likely to fall into the clutches of the radio. The second act, getting off to a boring start and failing to attain the standards set by the first, featured ballet routines well danced by Harold Lang and Babs Heath. In a stirring finale Mr. Rigaud gave a ridiculous performance of Strauss conducting a 1000 piece orchestra, a chorus...