Word: eulenspiegels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Also included on the program are Strauss's "Till Eulenspiegel," a Shostakovich Symphony (Op. 10), and Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor, arranged for orchestra by Leo Weiner...
Next week's concert will be a rare combination of Scheenberg's "Pelleas and Melisande", the "Unfinished Symphony" of Schubert, and Strauss' "Tyl Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks...
...Strauss's Schlagobers had its U. S. premiere in a concert suite conducted by Bruno Walter with the New York Philharmonic-Symphony. Most critics pounced on it as asinine stuff well-named. They remarked, not for the first time, that the genius who wrote Elektra and Rosenkavalier, Till Eulenspiegel and Don Juan, had petered out. Strauss's amazing orchestrations are taken so much for granted that no one thought to comment on the fact that the worst of Strauss is better than the best of most present-day composers...
...Till Eulenspeigel danced for the last time, with his feet off the ground longer than ever before. The Vagabond is often homesick for Till, and he will go to Sanders Theater at eight tonight to dream of Till's sly tricks. There the Symphony Orchestra will play "Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks, after the Old-fashioned Roguish Manner" and the rascal of Brunswick will live again in Strauss's spirited music...
...which "The Fool in Christ" 1910, and "The Heretic of Soana" have obtained the widest circulation. He has also written verse-dramas and epics. Much discussion has been aroused by one of his latest works, which is based on the stories connected with the medieval Flemish jokester, Tyll Eulenspiegel. In the year 1912 Hauptmann received the Nobel prize and he has received honorary degree from various universities, among them Oxford...