Word: straussed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
TIME'S piece on Dmitri Shostakovich [TIME, June 9] dogmatically names him "one of the five greatest living composers (the others: Sergei Prokofiev, Richard Strauss, Igor Stravinsky, Jean Sibelius...
...what was, by the current depressed standards of opera-writing, a bang-up opera. Like the British, who first applauded The Rape a year ago, the audience in Chicago's Shubert Theatre found that homely, curly-haired Composer Britten, at 33, was not yet a new Richard Strauss come to judgment. But critics liked his forcefully discordant, often tender music, well married to a brisk, sometimes bawdy libretto...
...others: Sergei Prokofiev, Richard Strauss, Igor Stravinsky, Jean Sibelius...
...Summer Symphony (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). Vivaldi-Mistowski's Concerto in G Minor for Strings, Mozart's Haffner Symphony, Richard Strauss's Suite from Der Rosenkavalier. Conductor: Alfred Wallenstein...
After venting its classical feelings last night, the Club will return step-side next week with a lighter program, featuring "Casey Jones" and a chorus from Strauss...