Word: strauss
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Munich. A Wragner Festival at the Prince Regent Theatre. July 18-Aug. 19, followed by two performances each of Strauss's Rosenkavalier and Hans Pfitzner's Palestrina...
...inadequate to be sure, but it is a very pleasant substitute all the same. At the "Pops" there is no beer in litre stone mugs, and there are few lovely women to rise smiling out of a pall of blue tobacco smoke. But in compensation, the orchestra plays Strauss as Strauss is seldom played. It plays other things also to stir the elemental passions of the Vagabond. Handel, Ravel, Victor Herbert and all the others that make music most palatable to the laymen. And a final inducement is the organ. It is not advertised as "mighty," the Vagabond...
...German who earned a re-engagement for next year with Manhattan's Philharmonic. Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition by Sergei Koussevitzky and the Boston Symphony (Victor, $8)-Ravel's translation of Mussorgsky's impressions in a picture gallery. Performance and recording have luster. Richard Strauss's Der Burger als Edelmann by Richard Strauss and the Berlin Staatsoper Orchestra (Brunswick, $7.50) -The composer's own version of the charming, satirical music he wrote for Moliere's Bourgeois Gentilhomme. Wagner's Siegfried Idyll by Karl Muck and the Berlin Staatsoper Orchestra under Muck...
...Viennese setting, two excellent sopranos, a well chosen male cast, and a waltz of Strauss-like sweep form the main attractions of this modern German film...
...yard back stroke--Won by E. B. Helvenstein '33; second, R. J. Strauss '32; third, A. J. Bohn '31; fourth, S. Bloom '32. Time...