Word: strauss
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jeritza had never before sung Salome except under the personal direction of Composer Strauss. Instead of the usual 30 rehearsals which Strauss insists upon there were but two (which she directed). She had long desired to play Salome in the U. S., but Manhattan's Metropolitan which mostly claims her services has banned...
...with fewer thematic repetitions, or conversely, expanded into a full-length, Neo-Wagnerian opera as Coates first intended to do. Bold or brave was he to introduce his work on the same night with such magna opera as Respighi's orchestration of Bach's Passacaglia and Fugue, Strauss's ghastly, gay, Till Eulenspiegels...
...opera Samuel Pepys took musical Munich by storm last winter (TIME, Jan. 6), will conduct during the fourth, fifth and sixth weeks; Conductor Willem van Hoogstraten of the Portland (Ore.) Symphony Orchestra, the first three and last two. First-nighters last week flocked to hear, not Wagner, not Strauss, not Tchaikovsky, though their names bulked large as old favorites, but French Maurice Ravel's cumulative, dynamic symphonic sensation, Bolero...
...Vienna between the combined German State theatres of Prussia, Bavaria and Saxony, and the Vienna State Opera. Most important clause is that on non-duplication. To German film companies goes the exclusive right to produce Wagnerian opera; to Viennese, the rights to lighter productions, non-Wagnerian, such as Richard Strauss, Mozart, Rossini...
...rejoicing. Finally, there remain the always enjoyable Pops. The program for tonight follows: TONIGHT Prelude to "Carmen" Bizet Overture to "The Flying Dutchman" Wagner En Sourdine Tellam Fantasia, "Il Trovatore" Verdi Finlandia, Symphonic Poem Sibelius Ave Maria Bach Gounod Ouverture Solennelle, "1812" Tchaikovsky Selection, "Eileen" Herbert Waltz "Vienna Blood" Strauss Triumphal March from "Aida" Verdi