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...lineups: Leverett: le, Duble; lt, Baker; lg, Frank; c, Grant, Strauss; rg, Connolly, Carlisle: rt, Baker, Hezlett; re, Oburchay, Watt; backs, Hurley, Eder, Snyder, Cooper, Katz, Mayer...
Lewis Lichtenstein Strauss, 50, close friend of Judge Samuel Rosenman, who rose to the rank of rear admiral in the naval reserve; is now on the Navy's Civilian Research Advisory Committee; a partner in Kuhn, Loeb & Co., bankers; a Jewish philanthropist; a Republican...
...Koussevitzky's programming and interpretation still rages, however. Since generalities are particularly dangerous when great musicians are involved, this reviewer can only say that he viewed the choice and execution of half the Sunday afternoon concert of the Orchestra in rather a dim light. A program of Weber Ravel, Strauss, and Brahms is simply too great a dose of Romanticism to be swallowed comfortably in one sitting. Following close on the heels of the "Oberon" Overture, and Ravel's "Pavane for a Dead Infanta," the usually brilliant "Till Eulenspiegel" was not setoff effectively and seemed trite rather than amusing. This...
Arabella. Says Ella: "Strauss loved my musicality. I used to go to his house. He liked to play poker, but I never play with him because he win very much." Last month a New York Times critic called her Tosca "The most completely satisfactory Tosca . . . this city has heard in recent years...
...rehearsed Ariadne from a score annotated for her by Strauss 15 years ago. But Manhattan critics, busy passing out bravos all around for the City Opera's Ariadne, were generally cool to Ella. Said the New York Herald Tribune's waspish Virgil Thomson: "She mostly stood around looking like the Statue of Liberty and sang flat." The critics' enthusiasm went to the opera itself, and to the singing of two younger sopranos: 30-year-old Polyna Stoska, who sang the tricky role of the boy composer, and tiny Virginia Mac-Watters, 26, protegee of Lotte Lehmann...