Word: strauss
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Strauss (who seldom does what is expected of him and who shuns the obvious) was dissatisfied, unhappy. Said...
...prominent personality in the music world celebrated his 60th birthday; City of Vienna made this the occasion for a gala week. Honors both frothy and substantial were recklessly poured upon the head of Richard Strauss. He was handed the keys of the city, he was created generalissimo of the combined musical forces, productions of numbers of his works-including his earliest and his latest-were arranged, he was presented with a villa erected at municipal expense in the gardens of the palace of the ex-Crown Prince...
Certainly Strauss, at 60, has behind him a record of achievement that could be equalled by few. At the age of six he was already composing. His biographer Steinitzer says: "He wrote notes before he learned the letters of the alphabet." At 16 he was a prodigy of prodigies; he had written songs, piano pieces, chamber music, orchestral overtures and choral works, nearly a hundred in number. One of these, a trifle called Whipped Cream, is now being resurrected in Vienna...
...program for the Symphony "Pops" Concert tonight will be as follows; Overture to "The Beautiful Galatea" Suppe Waltz, "1001 Nights" Strauss Furlana from "La Gioconda" Ponchielli Fantasia, "Iris" Mascagni Ballet Suite, "Syivia" Delibes Spanish Dance, "Panaderos" Glabounov Romance Rimsky-Korsakov Overture to "Rienzi" Wagner Selection, "The Tales of Hoffmann" Offenbach Deep River Burleigh-Jacchia "Stars and Stripes Forever" Sousa
...Symphony "Pops" Concerts will be featured by a special Wellesley program tonight. The concert will be open to the public as usual. The program is announced as follows: Comp and Circumstance Nigar Waltz, "Vienna Blood" Strauss Overture to "William Bell" Rossini Songs by Wellesley Glee Club First Hungarian Rhapsody Lissi Barcarole from "The Tales of Hoffmann" Offenbach Procession to the Cathedral, "Lohengrin" Wagner Wellesley Fantasy H. C. Macdougall Fantasis, "Aida" Verdi Whispering of the Flowers Blon Second Regiment Connecticut Reeves