Word: strausses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pontoon stage on a quiet inlet of the Rhine, bleachers ashore for 3,000 spectators and snack bars plastered with Coca-Cola signs. It promotes itself as "The City of the Operetta Festival." The single operetta to be staged all this summer: a jazzed-up version of Johann Strauss the Younger's A Thousand and One Nights...
Conventional student concerts usually include a fast, land overture, an isolated movement from an isolated symphony, a Stephen Foster medley, and a waltz by Johann Strauss. The inevitable "small but enthusiastic" audience consists of members of the faculty, parents of the performers, and a handful of erstwhile Babbitts searching for culture...
Continuous music for the next two weeks will be played in the following order: popular music, hillbilly, Spike Jones, ballads, Bach, Mozart, the Pre-Classics, Beethoven, the Romanticists, Strauss, Gilbert and Sullivan, and operatic works...
...Symphony (Sat. 6:30 p.m., NBC). Music of Mozart, Bizet, Richard Strauss...
...Agate. Wearing the chips on his shoulders like epaulets, he waged a steady duel with his time. "To be perfectly frank, I haven't the slightest desire to read any novel later than Henry James, see any play later than Ibsen, hear a note of music after Richard Strauss, or look at any canvas after Renoir ... I hold that when Labor rules the world all elegance will vanish and good manners will be a thing of the past . . . The masses? . . . I should compel them to vote, of course, because of the salutary effect of voting. But I should destroy...