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...program is as follows: Harvard Hymn J. K. Paine Concerto from the Cantata, "Uns ist ein Kind geboren" Bach "Pastorale" from the Christmas Concerto Corelli Waltz--Tales from the Vienna Woods Strauss Symphony No. 34 in C major Mozart Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 Bach Der Fruhling Grieg Malaguena Lecuona Fair Harvard
...century ago quadrilles and cotillions went out of vogue and every café orchestra in Vienna played its music in three-four time because a nervous little man named Johann Strauss had started writing irresistible waltz tunes. He conducted his own compositions while he fiddled bewitchingly at the head of his band. If Johann Strauss fathered the Viennese waltz, his son Johann II (Blue Danube), who was also an expert violinist-conductor, reared it to an historic state of world-wide popularity...
...Manhattan last week popped a Johann Strauss III on his way to Chicago to conduct a 45-piece waltz orchestra at the swank French Casino. Johann Strauss III is 68, a grandson of Johann Strauss I, a nephew of Johann Strauss II whom he greatly resembles. Johann III has the old Strauss way of conducting while fiddling. He inherited his uncle's job as Court Ball conductor for old Emperor Franz Josef. But for most Viennese his chief claim to fame is his name. His compositions (he brought "ein trunksful'') are mediocre and rarely played...
...Strauss waltzes are revived, the Strauss father & son story re-enacted, in The Great Waltz playing currently in Manhattan (TIME, Oct.1...
...lethargic British manner, Evensong is chiefly notable for the fact that slim, blonde, pretty Evelyn Laye manages to look bitterly old, awkwardly massive in its final sequences. Good shot: the café scene from La Bohême, in which Spanish Soprano Supervia ably sings Musetta's Waltz...