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Music for Three Waltzes was written by three homonymous composers. For Act I the melodies are Johann Strauss Sr.'s, popular Viennese bandleader of the mid-19th Century. Act II is credited to his son, Johann Jr., who wrote over 400 dance tunes, many operettas (Die Fledermaus, et al.). Act III's music is by Oscar Straus (Chocolate Soldier...
...Bannermann and Michael Bartlett. Miss Bannermann has an ideal voice for interpreting the lyric Straus melodies, and Michael Bartlett boasts a pleasing velvet tenor as well as a profile of the best vaudeville tradition. Their most beautiful number probably is the duet, "To Live Is to Love," written by Johann Straus...
...production is divided into three acts, the first set in Vienna in 1865, the second in Paris thirty five years later, and and the third in the London of the present day. Each act is scored around a waltz by one of the three Strauses: Johann, Johann fils, and Oscar, and the ballet is active throughout, interpreting the dancing of each period. In the first act there is a ballet of toe dancers, a chorus of Can Can Girls appears in the second, and in the third, of course, we see the modern chorines. But if you think...
...Power Biggs, Organist of the Harvard Church, Brookline, will give 12 recitals covering the complete organ literature of Johann Sebastian Bach on the Classic organ in the Romanesque Hall of the German Museum...
...found it patterned from the intaglio work on the steel. Albrecht Dürer was reputedly driven to the solace of wood blocks by his wife's demeanor after her hard day's washing. More recent and not at all apocryphal is the account handed down by Johann Nepomuk Franz Aloys Senefelder, a ragtag Bavarian actor & playwright, of the fretful day in 1796 when he was so poor he had neither paper nor ink with which to write his laundry list. Senefelder. whose plays no one would print, had been trying to make himself his own engraver...