Word: strauss
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...feature of tonight's concert will be the performance of the "Dance of the Seven Voila" from Richard Strauss's "Salome," and also the Finale of this opera, which is receiving its premiere in Boston...
Like his contemporaries, Richard Strauss and Gustav Mahler (Symphony No. 1), Delius went to Friedrich Nietzsche's ode to the superman,Thus Spake Zarathustra, for inspiration, converted portions of its Biblical German oratory into choruses and vocal solos, illustrated its moods with a surging orchestral undercurrent. His Nietzschean Mass, which requires over an hour and a half to perform, is so perfectly formed and climaxed that the listener's interest never lags-a pretty sure sign, in a pieqe of that size, that a great musical mind has been at work...
...conducting. It has been hinted that some are not good enough musicians to do anything else. A few, like the late Ossip Gabrilowitsch and the contemporary Jose Iturbi, have been even more famed as instrumental soloists than as orchestral maestros. Still fewer can, like Germany's Richard Strauss, combine the abilities of a brilliant conductor with those of an eminent composer. Burly, slope-shouldered Rumanian Georges Enesco, who replaced John Barbirolli last week as guest conductor of New York's Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, is probably the only famous musical figure today who is equally noted as a composer...
...Composer Strauss and his librettist laid their scene in a Hellenic back yard, envisioned livestock rooting about the grave of ax-murdered Agamemnon while his murderers' dying screeches float from backstage over the most malignant of operatic orchestrations. Their frenzied, hagridden Elektra, daughter of the slain Agamemnon and instigator of the ghastly revenge that overtakes his killers, demanded a singer of enormous endurance. Mariette Mazarin, who introduced the part to the U. S. in 1910, fainted while taking her final curtain calls. The late Ernestine Schumann-Heink, powerful Katrinka of opera singers, left the original cast at Dresden because...
...faced Klytemnestra of Kerstin Thorborg; the brilliant conducting of Artur Bodanzky. Pauly, whose last year's appearance in a concert version of Elektra under Conductor Artur Rodzinski was the sensation of the Philharmonic-Symphony season (TIME, March 29), prowled the stage like a maimed tigress, managed to give Strauss's frantic, maniacal heroine a quality of grandeur. Undaunted by gut-busting vocal hurdles, she sang, moaned and screamed her part, heating every note with emotion. Critics unanimously confirmed her European reputation as No. i Elektra and an artist of phenomenal ability...