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...bustling little Director Laszlo Halasz, the late Richard Strauss's opera Der Rosenkavalier looked like a natural for his New York City Opera Co. Its conversational style, he thought, was ideally suited to his City Center opera house...
While loudspeakers blared Strauss waltzes, alternating with the Internationale, comrades milled among the booths, past anti-American posters, right into the arms of 3,000 Communist girls with red flowers in their hair, who insistently sold lapel badges marked "Unita." No merrymaker could really begin to enjoy himself in peace until he had a badge in his buttonhole and a copy of Unita protruding from his pocket...
...nstler"-I am an artist), but he let the Nazis make him head of their Reichsmusikkammer (State Chamber of Music) in 1933. He resigned when the Nazis irritated him by criticizing his "non-Aryan" librettists, Hugo von Hofmannsthal (who had died in 1929) and Stefan Zweig. Last year, Strauss was finally cleared by a denazification court...
Since the war, although his works have been performed as widely as ever, Allied alien-property custodians have held most of the profits (estimated, in British and U.S. royalties alone, at more than $460,000). Two years ago, pink and erect, Richard Strauss journeyed to London to earn some money conducting (he never had to yield to any man as a Mozart conductor). In London he told inquiring friends: "The last time I conduct." What were his plans? Said Strauss...
Died. Richard Strauss, 85, famed composer (Der Rosenkavalier, Salome, Till Eulenspiegel); in Garmisch-Partenkirch-en, Germany (see Music...