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...Adams House Musical Society's production of the "Gypsy Baron," a light opera by Johann Strauss, will open November 16 in the Rindge Tech auditorium...
...Edward Elgar's Cello Concerto with Anthony Pini as soloist and "The Dance of the Seven Veils" from "Salome" by Richard Strauss finished the program. Mr. Pini is an unusually fine cellist and his mastery of Elgar's Concerto was evident from the first note, but the work itself is so mediocre compared to the others on the program it deserves little comment. The "dance of the Seven Veils," on the other hand, is intensely dramatic and the Royal Philharmonic gave it everything...
...what to put in it. The obvious answer was to prowl through nearly 50 years of sales files and figures, pick out its "alltime favorites." Victor's selections, announced last week, seemed to put the U.S.'s musical brow somewhere between chin and navel. The first eight: Strauss's The Blue Danube (conducted by Leopold Stokowski); La Donna è Mobile, from Verdi's Rigoletto (sung by Caruso); Carry Me Back to Old Virginny (sung by Marian Anderson); Franz Liszt's Liebestraum (performed by the First Piano Quartet); Victor Herbert's Italian Street Song (sung...
Bartok: Rhapsody for Piano and Orchestra, Opus I (Andor Foldes, pianist, with the Lamoureux Orchestra, Roger Désormierė conducting; Polydor-Vox, 1 side LP). Composed in 1904, Bartok's first published piece echoes some early influences, e.g., Liszt and Richard Strauss, but there is striking, youthful originality too. Hungarian-American Pianist Foldes plays' it (and the Fifteen Hungarian Peasant Songs and Sonatina on the other side) in a clean and fresh style. Recording: good...
Adams House, which is generally noted for good food, is making a bid for musical fame by producing Johaun Strauss' "The Gypsy Baron" on a scale which will make it the most ambitious show a House has over taken the trouble to put together...