Word: strauss
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Curtis Institute of Music. Proof of the company's security and artistic prestige is to be had in its plans for a new $6,000,000 opera house, in this season's prospectus: Twenty operas have been announced, among them such ambitious undertakings as Richard Strauss's Elektra (scheduled for its first time this week) and Alban Berg's Wozzeck.* Famed Contralto Margaret Matzenauer will be one of this year's singers. Conductors will be Fritz Reiner, Eugene Goossens, Alberto Bimboni, high-priced Leopold Stokowski...
Died. Milton A. Strauss, 61, of Chicago, vice president of Hart, Schaffner & Marx (clothing); after long illness; in Los Angeles, Calif...
Cleveland dressed up to match new Severance Hall, built for the Orchestra and dedicated last winter (TIME, Feb. 16). Conductor Nikolai Sokolov indulged none of his predilections for new, unproven music. For him the occasion deserved Strauss, Franck, Beethoven, Brahms...
Boston's reputation for civic censorship is old and well established. It was Boston that forbade Mary Garden to appear in Richard Strauss's Salome. It was Boston that banned the sale of Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy. It was Boston that kept Scribner's Magazine off the stands for printing the final chapters of Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms. The list is endless, but Boston's tireless censorship is generally directed at the stage and the printed page. Not for many months has it bothered with sculpture and the fine...
...considerably her junior. Ambitious, intelligent, they are less academic than the late Anna Pavlova, less Dionysian than the late Isadora Duncan. Last week's audience, like many another, found them at their best in straight forward pictorial interpretations : Miss St. Denis in the Salome dance of Richard Strauss and an Oriental Dance Balinese by Wells Hively ; Mr. Shawn in dances to four oldtime U. S. songs and a fantastic Frohsinn (Cheerfulness) to music of Paul Linke. Together they danced a charming Idyll by Roy Stoughton. Schoolchildren danced a "visualization" of the first move ment of Schubert's Unfinished...