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Even for the city of stars, it was a cosmic event at the Hollywood Bowl. On the program of "Music from Outer Space-a Star Wars Concert," was the Los Angeles Philharmonic, under Zubin Mehta, playing excerpts from Gustav Hoist's The Planets and Richard Strauss's Thus Spake Zarathustra, better known as the theme from 2001: A Space Odyssey. For special effects, each instrument stand in the orchestra had been hooked up to a microphone controlled by sound engineers, and stabbing rays of laser light began crisscrossing the bowl. As the music changed in intensity, the laser...
...Boston Symphony Chamber Players, the twelve main players of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, joined by pianist Gilbert Kalish, begin their three-concert series this Sunday with another romantic-contemporary program. Among the works performed will be Richard Strauss' "Till Eulenspiegel" Op. 28, arranged for chamber ensemble. The piece is a good introduction to the unusual musical world of Strauss, although I don't know how much of the real flavor actually comes through in a chamber transcription. Beethoven's "Kakadu" Variation for Piano Trio, Yehudi Wyner's Serenade (1958) for seven instruments and Brahms' Quintet for clarinet and strings...
...damn fool." Donald Frey, chairman of Bell & Howell, who has considerable doubts about Carter's preachy moralism, nonetheless gives the President high marks on one subject: "On international economic issues, Carter is dead right. There is no ambiguity about where Carter, [Chief Trade Negotiator Robert] Strauss and Blumenthal stand. They are opposed to protectionism...
...intensity with which players regard their team varies from House to House. Winthrop, which fields by far the largest squad (37 players compared to Mather's 17) had a training meal before yesterday's game with Kirkland, in keeping with the spirited attitude that has brought the Strauss Cup (symbolic of the overall intramural champ) to their halls for two consecutive years...
...Strauss Hall Rape & Pillage Society...