Word: strauss
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...yard free style--Won by T. F. McGuane '31; second, R. J. Strauss '32; third, J. C. Boardman '31; fourth, A. G. Malkan '33. Time...
...informal concert will be given in Dunster House tonight at 7.15 o'clock by Mrs. Carl Lamson, soprano, and Mr. Carl Lamson, pianist. The program will be as follows: Two Venetian Songs; "Frubling-snacht," by Schumann; "Ich Trage Mein Winne," "All Mein Gedanken," and "Heimlichen Auffordering," by Strauss; "On a Screen," "The Highwayman," and "Looking Glass River," by Carpenter; "Ah, Love but a Day," by Beach; four Negro spirituals; and "The Nightingale," by Whelpley...
...Among them: Mrs. Frederick Brown, wife of the Manhattan realtor, Mrs. Ralph Jonas, wife of Director Jonas of Manufacturers' Trust Co. of New York, Banker Jules Bache, Board Chairman Ludwig Vogelstein of American Metal Co., Banker Lewis Strauss of Manhattan...
With his music Taylor did not get off to a happy start. In the opening ballroom scene the waltz which he had long aspired to do in the Strauss genre was muddled and thin. The singing on the stage seemed to have little relation to the rambling accompaniment in the pit. Things improved with the beginning of the dream music, much of which was based on French folk songs. The orchestration took on a lovely, flowing sheen. Interludes in the manner of Pelleas et Melisande linked the scenes. Theatrically effective was the music for the scene in which Peter...
...inspired by a monument in Budapest, guarded always by a soldier on horseback), "Souvenir de Montmarte," "Tartar Dance." Composer Woodin relates that it was in the 1880's, when he, 18, was recovering from a throat operation in Vienna, spending his time in the Volksgarten listening to Johann Strauss conduct his own waltzes, that he became "really musical." As a child, piano-scales had bored him, so he had taken up violin, then the banjo and guitar. Vienna and Strauss made him want to know more. He began seriously to study the zither, laid a good musical foundation...