Word: strauss
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lotte Lehmann (Sat. 1:55 p. m. NBC-Red) heads the Metropolitan cast in Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier...
...Richard Strauss: Symphonic Domestica (Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy conducting; Victor: 10 sides). Composer Strauss' at his most realistic, depicts the pleasures, worries and bickerings of his own family circle, manages even to reproduce the gurgle of the drain in the family bathtub. Judged as music pure & simple, it is one of his finest scores, given its first (and a brilliant) recording...
...Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). In Alexander's Ragtime Band, Hollywood brilliantly reflected the changing moods of a U. S. generation through the songs of its outstanding composer. What that picture did for Irving Berlin, The Great Waltz does, in an utterly different but equally effective way, for Viennese Johann Strauss...
That The Great Waltz succeeds so notably in evoking the flowery nostalgia inherent in Strauss's music may be partly due to the ironic fact that world events have made imperial Vienna something more than the stock romantic setting it was when a similar operetta had its Manhattan stage opening four years ago. Certainly, admirers of the new Vienna will find much to deplore in the picture's affectionate portrait of an era when the principal effect of Revolution was that it inspired a young musician to write a march; and when the most important effect of barricades...
...unreal and as graceful as the music it records and celebrates, The Great Waltz should charm most cinemaddicts, give opponents of swing their happiest moments of the season. Good sequence: Strauss, driving through the outskirts of his city at dawn, fusing the song of a bird, the notes of a shepherd's flute, the salute of a carriage horn into Tales from the Vienna Woods...