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...essay "The Virtuous Vizor of Richard III," Raymond Joel Dorius 6G was awarded the Winthrop Sargent Prize, while the first and second Susan Anthony Potter Prizes went to Walter Adolph Strauss 2G, and Aniel Phillippe Van Teslaar 2G in that order. Strauss wrote "Albert Camus 'Caligula: Ancient Sources and Modern Parallels," and Van Ecslaar submitted an essay entitled "Dil-they and the Theory of Literature...
...Circle, in midtown, the dingy green loudspeaker, which used to blare out cacophonous versions of Strauss waltzes, has been silent for weeks. The shouting, arm-waving throng of money changers has dwindled to a few clusters. Only the silver dollar hawkers have kept up their professional spirits. They hang around street corners, clinking gleaming stacks of coins, their orthodox blue Chinese gowns topped by broad-brimmed brown fedoras that give them, from the neck up, that zooty air usually associated with Broadway characters in Li'l Abner. The price of their coins, like the price of everything else...
Pierre Monteux clambered to the podium and picked up his baton; the orchestra swung into Strauss's Die Fledermaus. He romped them through an Enesco Rumanian Rhapsody and Ravel's Bolero, turned over his baton to a guest conductor. Then the fun & games began...
...extremely chromatic harmony, which in Strauss' tone poems often becomes banal and boring, hardly ever ceased to be interesting during Thursday's "Salome." Credit for this, belongs largely to Conductor Reiner. His interpretation was characterized by careful restraint, with the result that the final climaxes were completely overpowering...
...Salome" contains many construction and orchestration devices which are seldom found in the earlier Italian operas. For example, Strauss makes some use of the "leitmotif," (a melody with a specific connotation) which is so conspicuous in Wagner's operas. One particularly striking example is the theme which usually accompanies the religious statements of Jokanaan, and which later appears greatly distorted, after his decapitation. Another use of this device, combined with an intentional and effectively weird orchestration is found in Salome's several repetitions of the phrase "give me the head of Jokanaan...