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...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...
Teaching had hardly changed since Ptolemy's day. Education was by rote and rod. A young, ugly, runty, sad-eyed Swiss scholar wanted to do something about it. Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi had already thought of preaching as a career-and his first sermon was so bad, the tale goes, that he laughed out loud in the middle of it. He tried law, and flopped again. At 22, in the year 1768, he bought a farm-and failed at that, too. But while his crops went to ruin, he filled his house with waifs, strays and farm kids, and began...
...contradictory voice from the grave was that of the Archduke Johann Nepomuck Salvator of Tuscany. When he died six months ago, his neighbors in Kristiansund knew him as Hugo Koehler, retired lithographer. But in his safe he left papers that Norwegian courts thought authentic. The papers said that Rudolf, in the lovers' hideaway at Mayerling, had accused Maria of gossiping about political intrigues. The little vixen raged back at him, bashed in his skull with a champagne bottle. Promptly Rudolf's valet, Josef Loschek, shot her dead...
...near the Philadelphia wharves, invented a marshmallow syrup, made enough to buy the factory. Last year he had saved up enough money to hire 75 members of the famed Philadelphia Orchestra in their off hours. On the top floor of his factory, he rehearsed them in musical bonbons by Johann Strauss and Offenbach, and piped both the sweet and sour notes to the candy kitchens below. Then he took his Pops Orchestra on a tour of Army & Navy hospitals, paying out $1,200 for each concert...
...Strauss Goes to Boston (music by Robert Stolz & Johann Strauss Jr.; lyrics by Robert Sour; book by Leonard L. Levinson; produced by Felix Brentano) opened Broadway's 1945-46 season without letting in much fresh air. An operetta about Johann Strauss (George Rigaud) headlining the great Boston Jubilee of 1872 and breaking hearts on Beacon Hill, it muffs the three real opportunities provided by the story. Far from conveying any of the devilish Strauss charm it babbles about, the book doesn't even billow with good lush operetta sentiment; it is just crushingly dull...