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...last four years of his life, Richard Strauss seldom heard his works performed by his own countrymen. The post World War II silent treatment was his penalty for having meekly allowed himself to be paraded as the artistic spirit of the Third Reich. But Strauss's death in 1949 seemed a signal for a West German revival of his music. Audiences eagerly returned to his masterworks. And this year, the 100th anniversary of his birth, the revival has become almost deafening...
...Hindemith, calls upon his own powerful magic to translate the themes into various musical modes, from unsettling nervous buzzings to biting jazz. On the other side, Furtwängler conjures up a more peaceful succession of Metamorphoses, also written in the 1940s, by the 81-year-old Richard Strauss...
...concert version of Bartok's opera, Bluebeard's Castle, filled the second half of the program. The opera is Bartok's Opus 11, written in 1911 just four years after Kodaly had introduced Bartok to the music of Debussy, and while Bartok was still under the influence of Strauss and Wagner...
Better Than School. Because of their extracurricular frenzy, law-review men are often unprepared in class. On the other hand, the reward for their work on the reviews, as Yale's outgoing Editor in Chief Peter Strauss typically describes it, is "the most intellectually exciting experience of my life." Says another editor: "I wrote one note on parole laws and it was worth seven courses in criminal law." Not surprisingly, law schools are now straining to give all students a touch of law-review experience by requiring far more independent research. "Law reviews are by far the best training...
VIENNA, 1908-1914 (Mercury) does not celebrate the vintage waltz-schmalz associated with the era, but the music of Schoenberg, Webern and Berg, who at the time formed a kind of progressive under ground in the city of Johann Strauss. Antal Dorati leads the London Symphony Orchestra in 13 orchestral pieces by the three modern masters...