Word: strausses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Visitors this summer even smoked Mozart cigarettes, munched Mozart pumpernickel. There were performances in the Festspielhaus and the open-air Rocky Riding School, not quite up to snuff, of Mozart's Don Giovanni and The Magic Flute. But last week the first postwar performance of the late Richard Strauss's last opera edged Mozart momentarily out of the spotlight...
...Strauss: Excerpts from Der Rosenkavalier (Elizabeth Schwarzkopf and Irmgard Seefried, sopranos; Dagmar Hermann, contralto; Ludwig Weber, bass; with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Otto Ackermann conducting; Columbia 2 sides LP). For the Vienna company, singing Der Rosenkavalier is a matter of doing what comes naturally. Outstanding: Soprano Seefried's Octavian in the second-act love duet with Sophie (Soprano Schwarzkopf). Recording: good...
...Lewis L. Strauss, 54, longtime partner in Wall Street's Kuhn, Loeb & Co. (1929-46) who resigned last April from the Atomic Energy Commission, announced that he was about to move into his new Manhattan offices as a financial adviser to the Rockefeller brothers...
...last wishes of the late Richard Strauss was that Kirsten Flagstad should be the soprano to introduce the four songs which he finished in 1948, the year before his death at 85 (TIME, Sept. 19). "I would like to make it possible," he wrote to her, "that [the songs] should be at your disposal for a world premiere in the course of a concert with a first-class conductor and orchestra." In London last week Composer Strauss's wish was fulfilled to the letter...
...election held after the game, the Yardlings chose Roger Alexander Martin of New York City and Strauss Hall as captain. Martin has been a mainstay of the Crimson defense all season...