Word: stolz
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Neal Koblitz, Jonathan Miller, Kidder Meade, Ruth Stolz, Nat Stillman, Nicholas Onisimov, Stephen P. Laverty, Terry Keister, Paul Easton, Bob Mac-Pherson, Elizabeth M. Harvey, Phyllis MacEwan, Rob Riordan, Jerry Loev, Susan Volman, Alan Zaslavsky, Alan Rubin, Anthony Giachetti, Leslie Lessinger, Jonathan Buchabaum, Marshall B. Crawford, Carl Pomerance, Melissa A. Brown, Jon Livingston, David T. Johnson, Richard Kornbluth, Lois Kessin, Art Small, Ron Capling, Reid Minot, Ellen Messing, S. David Finkelhor, Han Bennett, David D. Patterson, Maren K. Hill, Sheila Sondik, John Barzman, S. Mark Burr, Gregory K. Pilkington, Michael Kazin, Henry Norr, Elizabeth Stanley, Bonnie Britt, Michael L. Mavroidis...
...most people, the mere mention of a Viennese operetta conjures up a waltz of post-Johann Strauss composers-Franz Lehar (The Merry Widow), Oskar Straus (The Chocolate Soldier), Emmerich Kalman (Countess Maritza). But beside their names belongs another: Robert Stolz. In his long career, Stolz has written almost as many operettas as the other three combined. Now 82. Stolz is the grand old man of operetta, the sole survivor of the golden age of popular Viennese music (1910-25). At Austria's open-air amphitheater on Lake Constance last week, Old Composer Stolz was still at work. Tall...
After 160 melodious minutes, the old man on the podium turned to acknowledge the gusty applause. The locale of Trauminsel may have been Mexico and the sets Utopian, but no one who had ever heard a Viennese waltz could mistake the theme-a simple case, as Stolz himself put it in the title of his most famous operetta, of Two Hearts in Three-Quarter Time...
Fifth & Best. Stolz's headlong career in three-quarter time has yielded, in addition to his operettas, the music for 99 films, eleven ice shows, and more than 2,000 songs. It all began in Graz, where Stolz picked up the rudiments of conducting at the local conservatory. Appointed assistant conductor of the Stadttheater at Brno when he was 23, he promptly grew a beard to 1) make himself look older, 2) confuse his creditors, and 3) camouflage himself from the first of his five wives-to say nothing of the several other girls he was leaving behind. Stolz...
...refugee from Hitler's Germany, Stolz spent the war years as a composer of screen scores for Hollywood. In 1956 he returned to live in Vienna, where he is honored as the last practitioner of a once popular art. His most ardent fan remains a pretty Viennese to whom he was introduced in Paris during the war as Yvonne ("Einzi") Ulrich. In Reno, Einzi became his fifth wife. "Like Beethoven's and Tchaikovsky's Fifth," says Stolz with satisfaction, "Einzi is my best...