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Frederika (words & music by Edward Eliscu & Franz Lehar; Shuberts, producers). "Mr. J. J. Shubert, during his recent tour abroad, had observed the tradition of paying homage to the Waltz King by visiting Lehar at his home in Vienna. He had witnessed performances of five of his recent works in as many different capitals. The rare musical gift Frederika is merely the forerunner of a cycle." So reads a program note in this collaboration between Composer Lehar and the Producers Shubert, which was received by Manhattan first-nighters with self-control bordering on ennui...
...recitative were: a Scottish Suite by Adolph Deutsch, Whiteman's short, bespectacled chief arranger; the now familiar cacophonies of Ferde Grofé's Tabloid; Deutsch's Essay on Waltzes wherein the hybrid orchestra pieced together remnants of Beethoven, Gounod, Delibes, Tchaikovsky, George Evans, Chopin, Franz Lehar, Oscar Strauss and Johann Strauss. A blues clarinetist leaped into a long, screaming, upward run; Roy Bargy followed with incredibly nimble piano work and splashed hot chords into the Rhapsody in Blue. Beaming, Paul Whiteman about-faced, took many bows, and the All-American jazz concert was over...
...Overture to "The Marriage of Figaro"Mozart *"Unfinished" Symphony, in B minor Schubert Second Movement--Andante con moto *Marche Miniature Tchaikovsky *Overture to "The Flying Dutchman" Wagner "La Nuit Revecue" ("The Night Relieved") (After the Poem, "Senlin" by Conrad Aiken) Bainbridge Crist *Second Hungarian Rhapsody Liszt *"Merry Widow," Waltzes Lehar *"Deep River," Negro Spiritual Arr. by Jacchia *Procession of Bacchus from "Sylvia" Delibes Selections checked '(*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square
...Brown October Ale kept him in the highest bracket of the American Society of Composers, Authors " Publishers until his death. Other Smith productions: Victor Herbert's The Fortune Tetter, The Serenade, The Idol's Eye, Irving Berlin's Watch Your Step, Stop! Look! Listen!, Franz Lehar's Land of Smiles...
...still the music of Franz Lehar, the old bandmaster, who contrary to general opinion, is still bandmastering, is the best thing on the program. The picture is diverting, hardly-colossal, if you have a chance, drop in, but as you value your sanity, avoid Mr. Martel's suburban organ music...