Word: johanne
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Strauss: Wiener Blut (Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Erich Kunz, Emmy Loose, Nicolai Gedda; Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus under Otto Ackermann; Angel, 3 sides of 2 LPs). Not so grand a ball as Die Fledermaus, Johann Strauss's masterpiece, this operetta is slighter but in spots even more delightful. A composite of Strauss music not originally written for the stage, the score is full of surprises: when sung, some of the waltzes and polkas take on a warbling charm they do not have as orchestra pieces alone. The libretto is preposterous, but offers linguists an unusually rich sampling of Viennese slang...
...Cambridge Society for Early Music devoted all three of its concerts this fall to works by Johann Scbastian Bach. In the second concert, Ruth Posselt was the featured soloist in three of the rarely performed Sonatas for violin with harpsichord and continue. I admired especially the rhythmic vitality and sharpness of articulation which she brought to these works. Her dramatic vibrato, however, seemed out of place in the stately declamation of the E major Adagio, while the following Allegro sounded overly stiff, and other occasional nuances of mood were only slightly indicated. Yet within her conception, the performance was minutely...
Seven Up. In Graz, Austria, after swallowing seven live mice to win a 35? bet, Farmhand Johann Lugge was arrested, charged with cruelty to animals...
Died. Oscar Straus, 83, famed Viennese composer (no kin to Waltz King Johann Strauss or Bavarian Composer Richard Strauss) who wrote some 50 sparkling operettas (The Chocolate Soldier, Waltz Dream); of a heart ailment; in Bad Ischl, Austria...
...than 7,000 German churches were destroyed during World War II, these men may have plenty of commissions in the next decade. They favor abstract art, wedded to gothic glass techniques, and hope to woo churchmen away from the sweetly realistic style so long in fashion. The Netherlands' Johann Thorn Prikker, who died in 1932, has done as much as any stained-glass designer to set the new direction for his German colleagues. He was represented in the show by two brilliant, semi-abstract windows: one with a dove to symbolize the Holy Spirit and the other with...