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...productions too often leave one with memories of fashion on the promenade and little else. But Thursday night's performance of Richard Strauss' "Salome" was a very different story, and a very wonderful one. Singers and orchestra combined under Fritz Reiner's direction to give a really superb reading of Strauss' score and incidentally proved that "Salome" is an unusually fine opera which deserves far better treatment than the austere neglect it received until the Met's revival last month...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Puccini's Gianni Schicchi, and Strauss's Salome...
...mentioned his ballet The Legend of Joseph, which Impresario Sergei Diaghilev had first produced in Paris and London in 1914. Joseph meant something special to Max Reiter: as a young man he had played the celesta in the Berlin Opera orchestra while Strauss himself conducted it. Reiter demanded the honor of being the first to perform the new version when it was ready...
Last week, Strauss's new Joseph was ready, and Max Reiter's well-drilled San Antonio Symphony Orchestra was ready to play it. Composer Strauss had done more than strain off a potpourri of the original music; he had taken six or seven of his best themes, added some new material, then stirred and blended it all into a symphonic piece, in the tradition of his great Death and Transfiguration (1889). Said Conductor Reiter: "Strauss's music craft is as perfect as ever...
When it was over, San Antonians gave Joseph and Max Reiter their hearty approval. In appreciation of the man who had founded their orchestra (TIME, July 14, 1947) and nursed its musicians on Strauss, they had also given Max Reiter a new five-year contract...