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Strauss has written two musical autobiographies : Ein Heldenleben ("A Hero's Life"-modest title...
...Englishmen of the middle ground, Williams, Holst, and the rest. He has all the faults of a neutral, chief among them dullness. Brevity is not one of his virtues. As a conductor he is energetic; one would like to see (not hear) him conduct such a piece as "Ein Heldenleben...
...culmination, there was Strauss's dance of Salome, To him who has not heard this music, it seems inconceivable that the rather boisterous and broad humorist of "Tiel Eulenspiegel" or the Strong Superman of "Heldenleben" should be able even to approximate the essentially un-Teutonic, Wilde quality. That voluptuousness would seem hardly to be appreciated by an essentially broad and virle race; its subtleties would seem not for them. One hearing of the dance of Salome is convincing, however; rarely not even in the Tannhauser Bacchanale, has such voluptuousness been distilled into music...
...program will be as follows: Brahms, Symphony in D major, No. 2; Wieniawski, Concerto in D minor for violin and orchestra, No. 2, op. 22; Strauss, Tone Poem, "Ein Heldenleben...
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CONCERT. Soloist: Miss Germaine Arnaud. Sanders Theatre, 8 P. M. Program: Richard Strauss, Tone Poem, "Ein Heldenleben"; Saint Saens, Concerto for Pianoforte in G minor, No. 2; Weber, Overture, "Die Freischutz...