Word: strauss
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twenty-nine years have passed since Richard Strauss's Salome first shed her veils for Herod, shrieked her demands for the head of John the Baptist, groveled before it, kissed its cold lips. Scene was the Dresden Opera House where four years later Elektra scuttled crazily about the stage, screaming her lust for vengeance. Dresden heard the first Rosenkavalier, the first Egyptian Helen, the first Arabella, Strauss's latest opera (TIME, July 10). It was a right and fitting act of gratitude, therefore, for Dresden to stage a seven-day festival last week in honor of the greatest...
Next afternoon he broke two sticks. One, during the Beethoven Ninth, third movement, flew into the audience and was recovered after a mild scramble by a lady who put it in her handbag. The other splintered during the Strauss tone poem, Ein Heldenlebcn, the section labeled "The Hero's Battlefield." The butt-end of this was captured by Warren Mayo, president of U. of M.'s varsity glee club. Mayo took it to Stock's dressing room after the performance, and the master good-naturedly inscribed his initials upon...
...Princess and the Frog King" (Overture, "Si j'etais Roi")Adam Has Wiener an Dance Group "The Street Dancers' ("Blues") Krenek Hans Wiener and Kay Pope "The Butcher, the Baker, and the Candlestick Maker" Strauss ("Night in Venice," Overture) Hans Wiener and Dance Group Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square...
Wednesday Evening, May 16 *"Lohengrin," Introduction to Act III Wagner *"Der Rosenkavalier," Waltzes Strauss Schumann *Traumerei "Maximilian Robespierre," Overture Litolff *"Nell Gwyn," Suite German *Large from the "New World" Symphony Dvorak *First Hungarian Rhapsody Liszt *"The Princess and the Frog King" (Overture, "Si j'etais Roi") Thomas Hans Wiener and his Dance Group "The Street Dancers" ("Blues") Krenek Hans Wiener and Kay Pope "The Butcher, the Baker, and the Candlestick Maker" ("Night in Venice," Overture) Strauss...
...stately Lord Chancellor. Iolanthe is the fifth Gilbert-&-Sullivan revival by S. M. Chartock's capable company. The Chocolate Soldier. A charming, melodious newcomer named Bernice Claire has just the right, light touch when she bids the comic craven, Bummerli, "Come, come, naught can efface you" in Strauss's appealing "Hero" song. The hero, who would rather eat candy than fight, is alternately Donald Brian or Charles Purcell, the revival's producers...