Word: strausses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Johann Strauss: One Night in Venice (Vienna State Opera soloists, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and chorus of the Bregenz Festivals; Columbia, 4 sides LP). This charming romance of disguise and intrigue is the ninth of the Waltz King's operettas; it sparkles with some of the same gaiety as the other eight. Performance and recording: excellent...
Though much improved in the past few years, the chorus still does not have the perfect precision which used to be synonymous with the Ballet Russe. The orchestra, however, conducted by Paul Strauss, was excellent, as was the scenery throughout the performance...
...music. Lehar was no Johann Strauss, but his tunes are danceable and whistleable all the same. The twenty-piece orchestra sounded surprising good, and John McManus deserves credit for his good-humored conducting...
...ensemble's perfection seemed to lack only one thing: spontaneity. The crescendos and diminuendos were somehow too smooth, the phrases too surgically sanitary. Some of Shaw's listeners, though filled with admiration, felt a bit like Richard Strauss when he complained to the musicians of the Boston Symphony in 1904: "You play finely, but a little too finely. I want some roughness here...
...Gianni Schicchi was just half of Bing's troubles that night. The second short opera on his double bill was Richard Strauss's lurid Salome, and this time the ear fared better than...