Word: strausses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan audience last week cheered a young soprano with a red-flaming mane of hair, a statuesque build and a voice of beauty. She was singing concert excerpts from Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier, with the Symphony of the Air (conducted by Leonard Bernstein) in Carnegie Hall. Her part, the ingenue Sophie, is filled with some of the most ecstatic vocalization ever set on paper, and she followed it with a voice that had the rich but fine-drawn quality of a crystal goblet...
...Pittsburgh's fashionable Hotel William Penn ballroom one night last week, the city's 88-piece symphony orchestra, one of the best in the U.S., became for a little while a gay and lilting dance band. Waltzing to Strauss's Tales from the Vienna Woods, and applauding from the $100 boxes were civic and business leaders of Pittsburgh and their wives. The occasion was the TIME of Your LIFE Ball...
...Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos (Irmgard Seefried, Rita Streich, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf; Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Herbert von Karajan; Angel, 3 LPs). One of Strauss's important operas, handicapped by a confused libretto, but abetted by some soaringly lyrical music. Even when the score is less than inspired, the cast's three unbeatable leading sopranos melt the listener...
...mechanical monsters. Current hits: Three Coins in the Fountain, Ko Ko Mo and I Love Paris (in the springtime). There are those who deplore the jukebox (which is known as "Musikautomat") as further evidence that civilization is in schrecklich shape. But Vienna's present-day songwriters (not a Strauss among them) are jazzing up older tunes for jukebox use and, in the process, are demonstrating that they can be fairly schrecklich on their own. Current sample...
...Chairman Lewis L. Strauss announced last week that nuclear tests to be held in the Pacific next spring will "involve less powerful weapons than the largest used in the 1954 tests." Also announced: the series "will be the further development of defense against nuclear attack." This probably means that atomic explosives or atom-armed missiles will be tried against airplanes high in the sky. It will partially meet military complaints that the AEC tests "nuclear devices" rather than practical "weapons systems...