Word: strauss
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...JOHANN STRAUSS WALTZES (Boston "Pops" Orchestra Concerts, Arthur Fiedler conducting; Victor: 10 sides). The Blue Danube is lacking, but Vienna's Waltz King is otherwise well represented...
While the Musikkammer's ban on music by Jewish composers has been rigidly enforced, racial borderline cases, Jew-"Aryan" collaborations, and other knotty problems have kept Nazi theoreticians in a perpetual dither. "Aryan" Composer Richard Strauss's operas have escaped the ban, though several of his most successful (Die Schweigsame Frau, Der Rosenkavalier, Elektra) have librettos by Jews. Also unbanned, and of Jewish authorship, are librettos of "Aryan" Composer Franz Lehar's operettas (The Merry Widow, et al.). Carmen, a perennial favorite in German opera houses, was written by French Composer Georges Bizet, who is generally credited...
...Wedding March from "Le Coq d'Or"Rimsky-Korsakov *Overture to "Semiramide" Rossini *Minuet from "L'Arlesienne" Bizet *Soviet Iron Works Mossolov *Prelude and Love Death from "Tristan and Isolde" Wagner *Hora Staccato (Roumanian) Dinieu-Heifetz "Artist's Life," Waltzes Strauss *Sixth Slavonic Dance Dvorak *Intermezzo from "Goyescas" Granados *March, "On the Mall" Goldman *Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square...
...Thompson, '20 Cannon: "O Due Eselhafter Martin" Mozart Symphony No. 2, Final Randall Thompson, '20 *Choruses from the Yeomen of the Guard Sullivan Soloist: D. P. MacAllester, '38 The Harvard Glee Club Leroy Anderson, '29, Guest Conductor *Dance of the Buffoons, From "Snow Maiden" Rimsky-Korsakov *"Vienna Life," Waltzes Strauss *Harvard Fantasy Leroy Anderson, '29 Fair Harvard *Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square...
Stolen Heaven is more likable than most gem-thievery pictures because its pattern is fringed with immortal music. The characters hide behind doors and talk crook lingo while the sound track throbs with Liszt, Chopin, Grieg, Moszkowski, Strauss. The music is introduced by having the pianist practicing incessantly for a promised return to the concert stage. Best number: a montage giving an idea of what Liszt's Second Hungarian Rhapsody might look like if sounds were pictures...