Word: oned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...One of Strauss's most difficult productions to get on the boards was his Salome, written in 1903. Asked to play the lead, Soprano Marie Wittich at first refused with the explanation: "I can't do this; I'm a decent woman." Even the composer's father had his doubts, the son remembered. "Mein Gott," he exclaimed, "what nervous music! It makes me feel as though my pants were full of grabbling May bugs...
...One of the last acts of frail, white-haired Composer Bela Bartok before his death in 1945 was to complete a viola concerto for William Primrose. In the University of Minnesota's Northrop Memorial Auditorium last week, a near-capacity crowd brought Violist Primrose back onstage six times with thunderous applause. With Conductor Antal Dorati's Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, he had given the first public performance of Bartok's tragic, lyrical swan song...
...writing the concerto, Hungarian Bela Bartok knew he was racing against death. Hating to waste one moment of time or one inch of score paper, the poverty-stricken composer wrote in a highly individualized musical shorthand, sometimes indicating whole passages with one or two pothooks, often squeezing in bars off the clef-at the edges and bottom of the sheet-without even indicating where they belonged. His most puzzling short cut was in the correction of notes: instead of erasing, Bartok grafted his improvement right onto the original...
Clutterbuck (by Benn W. Levy; produced by Irving L. Jacobs in association with David Merrick) is one of those "trifles light as air"-and very welcome in a theater where they are usually heavy as lead. Unlike most writers whose subject is sex and whose object is laughter, Playwright Levy (Springtime for Henry) possesses the gleaming eye of wit and the gloved hand of worldliness. Clutterbuck has the usual drawbacks of paper-thin comedy but it offers a good deal more than the usual rewards...
...play chronicles a cruise taken by two old school friends (Ruth Ford and Ruth Matteson) with their dissimilar and discordant husbands, one a businessman (Arthur Margetson), the other a novelist (Tom Helmore). The wives shortly espy a tourist named Clutterbuck (Charles Campbell) on whom they had both, it transpires, bestowed their pre-matrimo-nial favors. Simultaneously the husbands discover they have both enjoyed the pre-matrimonial favors of Clutterbuck's wife (Claire Carleton). From there in, the play concentrates on how the six of them purr and perspire, recall the past and are moved to repeat it; on their...