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...RICHARD STRAUSS: SYMPHONIA DOMESTICA (Columbia). Strauss once declared that he found himself as interesting as Napoleon and equally worthy to be the subject of a symphony. He generously included his wife and baby in the scenario when he wrote this tone poem about a day at home. The baby is put to bed as the clock chimes 7 and there is some love music for the happy parents that one imaginative critic has found pornographic. The musical themes are not the most memorable that Strauss ever wrote, but the orchestration is magnificent; and George Szell and the Cleveland Orchestra make...
Though their numbers have gradually declined with the spread of merger-seeking corporations, firms that have stuck to private ownerships have proved that they can compete with and outdo the Goliaths by concentrating on specialty products. San Francisco's family-owned Levi Strauss & Co., the behemoth of blue jeans, has a new wrinkle-or, rather, an unwrinkle. It has just begun worldwide marketing of hot-selling "Sta-Prest" pants, which are treated with resin, then baked in 325° ovens until they have a permanent crease...
...RICHARD STRAUSS: SONGS (RCA Victor...
Soprano Lisa Delia Casa has carved a career for herself in Strauss operas and can also confidently interpret his lieder. Here she sings Zueignung, Stündchen, and other songs of Strauss's youth in a voice like silver filigree. Her accompanist, Arpad Sandor, achieves the same fragile brilliance on the piano as they evoke both the dark and lighter moods of love...
...tiny post-Versailles Austria (pop. 6,760,000) teetered perennially on the edge of bankruptcy, the ancient Hapsburg capital was still the political and financial nerve center of the Balkans. As Europe slid into the chaos of depression and approaching war, the Viennese reveled in the musicmaking of Richard Strauss, Lotte Lehman and Bruno Walter; they entrusted their psyches to Sigmund Freud and his rivals, and indefatigably dissected Stefan Zweig's novels or Joseph Schumpeter's economics in the city's celebrated cafés, fueling the endless talkfest with the best beer and coffee...