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Steber's test came in a concert-version revival of Richard Strauss's fairy-tale opera, Die Frau ohne Schatten (The Woman Without a Shadow), and in a soprano role which Vienna's beloved Maria Jeritza introduced to the Viennese in 1919. The story: an emperor on a hunt sees a white gazelle, and when he throws his spear at her, she turns into a woman. The emperor takes her home and makes her his wife. But the new empress does not cast a shadow, and, uneasily, the emperor realizes that his bewitching wife is not really...
...proud to have such a singer." Last week, after a repeat performance, the Vienna State Opera announced that the soprano from Wheeling* had been invited to sing in Vienna next year just as much as her Metropolitan Opera schedule will allow. Said Eleanor Steber: "That I was accepted singing Strauss in Vienna is so thrilling that I still find it hard to believe...
...Holly Walker Butler, senior class marshal, and Nancy Barrow, president of the Student Council, will lead the procession. Mrs. John M. Maguire, college marshal will head the college officers and trustees, and Mrs. Barbara M. Solomon is the graduate students' marshal. The Harvard Band, directed by Peter Strauss '54, will play at the exercises...
...play. He has also got crisp characterizations from his cast. William Holden gives one of his quietly competent performances as a cynical G.I. Otto Preminger and Sig Ruman play comedy Nazis. Don Taylor, Richard Erdman, Harvey Lembeck, Peter Graves and Co-Author Trzcinski himself play P.W.s. Robert Strauss repeats his stage role as Animal, a big, hairy oaf who lumbers around in long winter underwear dreaming out loud about-Betty Grable...
...findings in a 30-page "Invecticon," listing the strongest and most piquant critical epithets alphabetically, with composers to whom they have been applied. Samples: advanced cat music (Wagner), belly-rumbling (Bela Bartok), bestial outcries (Alban Berg), bleary-eyed paresis (Tchaikovsky), chaos (Bartok, Berg, Berlioz, Brahms, Liszt, Mussorgsky, Prokofiev, Scriabin, Strauss, Wagner), intoxicated woodpecker (Edgar Varèse), lewd caterwauling (Wagner), mass-snoring (Bartok), nasty little noise (Debussy), spring fever in a zoo (Stravinsky...