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Last week, while John Barbirolli and Manhattan's Philharmonic-Symphony gave an all-Strauss program, Realist Strauss's most realistic score, the Domestic Symphony, was revived by Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra. Dedicated to Frau Strauss & offspring, the symphony depicts scenes in the Strauss family circle. Philadelphians marveled & chuckled as Papa & Mama Strauss bickered, pleaded and brooded over the upbringing of Offspring Strauss. The argument realistically ended with Papa Strauss banging on the table (the whole brass section) and announcing that he would do pretty much...
...better. What to him was a theme for art and philosophy is to them a principle of practical politics. Realmleader Hitler is himself a rapt worshipper of Wagner's music. The Ride of the Walküre is one of his favorite entrance marches for big State occasions. Frau Winifred Wagner, daughter-in-law of the late great composer and friend of the Realmleader, is Germany's musical matriarch. Wagner's Norse heroes, W70tan and Siegfried, have been converted by Official Seer Alfred Rosenberg into neo-pagan demigods...
...heard it, he gave her small lyric soprano parts at the Charlottenburg Opera. After her accidental discovery of C in altissimo, Soprano Sack perfected her coloratura. When, as a member of the able Dresden Opera, she sang in the world première of Richard Strauss's Schweigsame Frau (The Silent Woman), and later in a revival of his Ariadne Auf Naxos, Composer Strauss wrote in extra fioriture for her nimble vocal chords...
...brother Heinrich, his son Klaus and daughter Erika. Sometimes he said he kept silent to protect his German readers. Sometimes, when reporters got him to the point of discussing Hitler or his own status as an exile, he was checked by shrewd, matter-of-fact, English-speaking Frau Mann, who hovered near, adroitly answered for him. In voluntary exile in Zurich since Hitler came to power, officially deprived of German citizenship last December, his property confiscated and books burned, Dr. Mann nevertheless held his tongue, waited until the right moment to strike back...
Thus matters have stood, with General and Frau Ludendorff penning and printing tracts against the Jews and especially against Christians, their piety being reserved for Germany's "Old Gods" such as Wotan. Last week Dictator Hitler sat down and talked with General Ludendorff. They talked for two hours and next day the whole Nazi press erupted with joy, quoting such wise sayings of the General as : "I am not only an opponent of Christianity but really anti-Christian and a heathen, and I am proud of it! At this moment we Germans have almost freed ourselves from the teachings...