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...Manhattan, too, Composer Strauss was having his innings. Last winter, the up-&-coming New York City Opera Company successfully revived Strauss's 1912 opera Ariadne auf Naxos, never before heard in New York. Last week, for this fall's first performance of Ariadne, the City Opera unwrapped two shining new stars named Wilma Spence and Suzy Morris...
Richard Strauss, composer of 15 operas, once called Ariadne auf Naxos his favorite. Until last week New York had never seen it performed professionally. For 30 years in Europe, Ariadne has been a connoisseur's opera, esteemed by musicians and performers, but not by the public, which preferred Strauss's erotic Salome and his opulent Rosenkavalier. Last week in Manhattan, after the 28th curtain call for the New York City Opera Company's first performance of Ariadne, a friend of 82-year-old Composer Strauss cabled...
...Auf ein baldiges Wiedersehen." (See you soon...
This was På Återseende (Auf Wiedersehen) for Gunder, who has come to like the U.S. (especially malted milk, cowboy clothes and baseball). He had broken three records: world's official two-mile (best time, his own unofficial 8:47.8, set in Sweden last summer), the U.S. 1,500-meter (3:47.8) and U.S. outdoor mile (4:05.3). He began packing to go back to Sweden. There in his absence another runner, his friend, hulking Arne Andersson, had smashed Gunder's mile record with a mark...
...Highly improbable," said Norwegians in exile. If Singer Flagstad and her husband had "escaped," they sniped, it must have been with cheering crowds of Nazis wishing them Godspeed and auf Wiedersehen. Chances are, said they, that Kirsten Flagstad was simply on her way to her summer home in Kristiansand...