Word: strauss
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Great Waltz (by Moss Hart; Max Gordon, producer) is a musical biography of Johann Strauss -("The Blue Danube'') and his able father. The plot is laid in the Habsburgs' Vienna of 1844, the year the young Strauss, stepping out of the shadow of his father's contemporary fame, made his name overnight leading the orchestra 'in his own waltzes at Dommaver's Casino in the fashionable suburb of Heitzing. Until the father's death five years later, the two Johann Strausses were bitter rivals for the title of Waltz King...
...Columbia Law School, he was also teaching English in Manhattan's High School of Commerce. Today he occasionally helps Partner Dietz with a fractious lyric. When he made enough money in Law to give it up, he became a composer. He dislikes all opera but Wagner, favors Strauss, Schumann, Brahms, Hoagie Carmichael. When he makes enough money from his music, he intends producing straight drama. He is now writing the music for a Dietz adaptation of The Three-Cornered...
...Salzburg Music Festival in Austria this year was to watch the excitement that would occur if the Festival had to be called off. Adolf Hitler, whose Bayreuth Festival was no great shakes, did everything he could to spoil Austria's show. He refused to let Richard Strauss, one of the Salzburg Festival founders, conduct a cycle of his operas, grudgingly allowed him to sit in the audience when Clemens Krauss led Elektra. He nearly ruined a performance of Tristan by yanking German Tenor Hans Grahl out of the cast at the last moment, He saw to it that Wilhelm...
...forthright and fresh if his latest music is not. Strauss's enemies feed on his personal shortcomings. His conceit, they say, is enormous. To keep him in Vienna for four months a year, Austria gave him the Belvedere Palace, once occupied by the ill-fated Archduke Francis Ferdinand.* Visitors complain that to enter and see the composer they must first clean the soles of their shoes. Mercenary Strauss undoubtedly is. He lives carefully in his home in Garmisch near Munich. Where royalties are concerned he is a notoriously hard bargainer. At the beginning of his career he planned...
...Vienna also celebrated the Strauss birthday last week, but Strauss preferred to be in Dresden...