Word: strauss
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vienna it is the custom for children confirmed at St. Stephen's Cathedral to be taken afterwards for a drive through the Prater, then to a pastry-shop where they are allowed to eat their fill of schlagobers (whipped cream). Decade ago schlagobers inspired homey Frau Richard Strauss to write a ballet scenario. Herr Richard lathered it with music prodigiously orchestrated, conducted it at the Vienna Staatsoper to celebrate his 60th birthday. In the ballet, pralines, marzipans and gingerbread men dance in a pastry-shop kitchen. Whipped-cream ballerinas waltz out of a giant bowl. An over-stuffed little...
...golden curtains at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House shot up one afternoon last week on a stage for an instant ominously black. Trumpets blared a sudden, stunning dissonance. Richard Strauss's Elektra, the most hectic and hard-driven of operas, began its premiere at the Metropolitan, its first performance in New York in 22 years...
...Strauss's taut, frenetic music deeply moved the audience last week. People stayed to cheer long after it had ended. Under Conductor Artur Bodanzky the basses whirred an awful suspense while Elektra waited for Klytemnestra's death scream. The horns exclaimed wildly while Elektra danced herself to death. Few critics bothered to carp at the stuffy stage production. They were grateful to the hard-pressed Metropolitan for mounting even so tardily a great opera which is unlikely to prove a great box-office attraction...
Talk of a big new opera company buzzed louder and clearer in Manhattan last week than any of the many opera rumors of the past year. Soprano Maria Jeritza and Tenor Beniamino Gigli, both out of the Metropolitan this year, were two names connected with it. Richard Strauss, the story went, would be one of its conductors, Fritz Reiner another. Max Reinhardt, Ernst Lubitsch and Robert Edmond Jones would stage its productions in up-to-date fashion. Youthful members of Society would be called upon for support instead of the staid and settled folk who sit in the boxes...
...Andrew Kacmarcyk of Long Island City, Hubert D, Kernan, Jr. of Utica, Henry C. Knowiton of New York City, John T. McLoughlin of New York City, Henry V, Poor, Jr. of New York City, Arthur M. Sherwood, 3rd of New York City, Ross H. Smith of Rochester, John A. Strauss of New York City, Paul M. Sturges of Stone Ridge, Julian N. Trivers of Scarsdale, Richard E. Voland of New Rochelle, Robert L. Wolff of New York City...