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...concert ration of German, Italian and Slavic music, and set about with gusto to deflate what he thought were undeserved reputations. Toscanini he criticized as a practitioner of the "Wow Technique," by which he meant "the theatrical technique of whipping up something in a way to provoke applause automatically." Strauss's Salome, he wrote, was "like modernistic sculpture made of cheap wood, glass, rocks, cinders, papier-mâché, sandpaper and bits of old fur. But the whole makes a composition and the composition speaks." Thomson freely acknowledges that concerts were often the merest excuses for mounting...
...Strauss and sophomore Bob Inman will also have plenty of opportunity to get into the game, since they, along with Kelley, are all accomplished rebounders...
Although he will start his regular five, Wilson will probably use Pete Kelley, Len Strauss, and sophomore Bob Inman frequently, since all three are good rebounders...
...Strauss entered the game in the second half and his energetic rebounding fired the team even more. Lynch continued to score, and Joe Deering added a few baskets on fast breaks. With the clock showing 13:30 to go, the Crimson was sitting comfortably on the long end of a 56-40 score...
...immensely successful Metropolitan Opera debut this season in Cosi fan Tutte. Soprano Curtin was also a smash in Europe before she came to the Met, but her European success merely topped off a career patiently built in America. Last week, as she followed a superbly rousing performance of Strauss's Salome at the Vienna Staatsoper with another performance of Cosi in Vienna, that career looked increasingly like one of the most handsomely crafted in opera...