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...Strauss & Sparks. A debonair and handsome man, Arthur Fiedler is known around Boston as both a socialite (he married a onetime Beacon Hill debutante in 1942) and a "spark." He loves volunteer firefighting, has wangled a fire department sign for his car so he can drive right up to the fire lines. He also carries an honorary police commissioner's gold badge, likes to loaf around police headquarters. During Boston's 1942 Cocoanut Grove fire, in which 492 died, Fiedler was stationed at a morgue. During the war, like many other Bostonians over military age, he took...
...Fiedler knows that his music has a proper place in Boston, just as much as Koussevitzky's had. Says he: "I have no use for those snobs who look down their nose at everything but the most highbrow music-which often they don't understand anyhow. A Strauss waltz is as good a thing of its kind as a Beethoven symphony. It's nice to eat a good hunk of beef, but you want a light dessert, too." Fiedler's aim: to dish up the dessert as well as possible-"I'm very fussy about...
...Symphony (Sat. 6:30 p.m., NBC). Handel's Water Music, Schubert's Fifth Symphony, Verdi's ballet music for Otello, waltzes from Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier. Conductor: Erich Leinsdorf...
...Multitudes. Finally, surrounded by his close friends at lunch at the Savoy, Conductor Beecham got into a vivace finale. After the toastmaster had read telegrams from Jan Sibelius and Richard Strauss, he roared, "Where's the one from Mozart?" When one speaker said Sibelius had once remarked that Beecham was the "greatest living conductor," Sir Thomas chirped "Hear! Hear...
...Winthrop Sargent prize, awarded for excellence in languages and literatures, will give Dorius a stipend of $150, while Strauss and Van Teslaar will receive $100 and $50 respectively from the Potter Prizes, given in the field of Comparative Literature...