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Conventional student concerts usually include a fast, land overture, an isolated movement from an isolated symphony, a Stephen Foster medley, and a waltz by Johann Strauss. The inevitable "small but enthusiastic" audience consists of members of the faculty, parents of the performers, and a handful of erstwhile Babbitts searching for culture...
Continuous music for the next two weeks will be played in the following order: popular music, hillbilly, Spike Jones, ballads, Bach, Mozart, the Pre-Classics, Beethoven, the Romanticists, Strauss, Gilbert and Sullivan, and operatic works...
...Symphony (Sat. 6:30 p.m., NBC). Music of Mozart, Bizet, Richard Strauss...
...Agate. Wearing the chips on his shoulders like epaulets, he waged a steady duel with his time. "To be perfectly frank, I haven't the slightest desire to read any novel later than Henry James, see any play later than Ibsen, hear a note of music after Richard Strauss, or look at any canvas after Renoir ... I hold that when Labor rules the world all elegance will vanish and good manners will be a thing of the past . . . The masses? . . . I should compel them to vote, of course, because of the salutary effect of voting. But I should destroy...
...financial failure of "The Gypsy Baron" was attributed largely to Harvard's indifference to opera in general and Strauss in particular. But the failure was due not only to community apathy to the unsophisticated Strauss; it was also due to an attempt at lavish production which had only unpolished results. Polyna Stoska did not draw her money's worth. "The Gypsy Baron" was fun, but it was still the Adams House Musical Society, this time all dressed...