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...Johann Strauss: Rediscovered Music, Volume II (Columbia Broadcasting Symphony, conducted by Howard Barlow; Columbia; 6 sides; $3.50). More polkas and waltzes from the great Library of Congress collection, sparkling and well-iced...
...second half of the program is devoted to some waltzes from Johann Strauss's oriental opera, La Reine Indigo, Constant Lambert's jazzy, flashy, but not too consequential Rio Grande, and the opening chorus from Verdi's Othello...
Among the most interesting of the songs that are being rehearsed this year are the "Dirge For Two Veterans", by Holst; "Choeur de Soldats", from Johann Straus operetta "La Reine Indigo"; "Der Ganz am Liebchen", by Brahms; and the exciting opening scene from Verdi's "Othello." Familiar pieces such as several choruses from the Gilbert and Sullivan operettas "Patience" and "The Mikado", and "My Spirit Be Joyful" from Bach's 146 Cantate will also be performed...
...Nature, commissioned by Rockefeller Center, Inc., as part of their program for sculptural and fresco decorations in Rockefeller Center's slab-sided skyscrapers, stocky, bob-haired Sculptor Milles had worked for three years. Milles got the idea for his singing statue from a line by German Poet Johann Gottfried Seume: "Where song is, pause and listen; evil people have no song." Taking three huge blocks of north Michigan pine, each made by pressing planks together like a gigantic piece of plywood, Carl Milles carved the biggest one into his medieval-looking horseman and tree. From the other blocks...
...Arts put the whole Chrysler collection on exhibition, and 989 art lovers including Richmond's floweriest socialites went to look. To do right by the occasion, Collector Chrysler chartered a private railroad car, arrived in Richmond with 58 convivial friends. While a 15-piece orchestra played waltzes by Johann Strauss, Mr. Chrysler and friends leaped joyfully up the Museum's wide staircases to his very own art show...