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...Peter Strauss '54, who conducted in the Stadium Saturday, will also conduct the concert, Hastings said. Strauss has been student conductor for two years...
Women will finally get their chance to lead the Band, student conductor Peter Strauss '54 announced last night...
...that will give us a chance for at least four or five numbers," Hastings said last night, adding that Peter Strauss '53 would lead, since regular conductor Malcolm H. Holmes '28 will not be present...
Today, to the limit of his pocketbook, the music lover can buy 128 complete recorded operas, from Mozart to Gershwin (the biggest U.S. opera companies can mount only about 20 a season). He can have song cycles by Mahler, rare tone poems by Strauss, tropical novelties by Villa-Lobos, and scores of other out-of-the-way pieces, many of them complete strangers...
...Strauss died in 1949, five years after the war's end. Perhaps last week's performance came too soon: the audience seemed only mildly impressed, the applause was almost perfunctory. True, the music had its passages of Strauss lyricism, and Conductor Clemens Krauss made the most of them. But the score bore little resemblance to the lilting Rosenkavalier or the passionate Salome: it was closer to the allegorical Frau ohne Schatten or Die Aegyptische Helena of the composer's later years, and it sometimes made unreasonable vocal and emotional demands on the singers. Its story, a retelling...