Word: waltzes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Literally dazzling to the eye, splendiferous in its costuming and setting, "The Great Waltz" made another stop in its countrywide tour to open a return engagement of two weeks at the Boston Opera House last night. A brilliant mixture of singing, dancing, lovemaking and fireworks makes the whole melange a Roman Holiday in the nineteenth century manner, staged with all the gaudiness of twentieth century America...
...course the music is the spice, or rather, the sweetening of the evening. Waltz compositions of both the Strausses are played and sung at well-spaced intervals but occasionally they become syrupy. The musical comedy starts with the Radetsky March and ends with the climactic The Beautiful Blue Danube, played by the younger Strauss to an enraptured audience at the fashionable Dommayer beer garden. As the orchestra plays and the audience dances, the happy singing announces that Vienna has acclaimed a new waltz king, worthy successor of his own father...
Gilbert and Sullivan performances by the D'Oyly Carte Company are scheduled to open in Boston April 12 and continue for several weeks. "The Great Waltz" is returning for a two week engagement which also begins on the twelfth.Myra Hess...
Featured in the musical score are three songs, "Lying in the Sun," "Memory Waltz," and "Swng in the New Rhythm...
Frederika (words & music by Edward Eliscu & Franz Lehar; Shuberts, producers). "Mr. J. J. Shubert, during his recent tour abroad, had observed the tradition of paying homage to the Waltz King by visiting Lehar at his home in Vienna. He had witnessed performances of five of his recent works in as many different capitals. The rare musical gift Frederika is merely the forerunner of a cycle." So reads a program note in this collaboration between Composer Lehar and the Producers Shubert, which was received by Manhattan first-nighters with self-control bordering on ennui...