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Premiered at the Shubert Theater Monday night, "Mr. Strauss Goes to Boston" offered at most a pleasing array of music, humor, and color. Leonard Levinson's flimsy book was rescued to some extent by the lively and semi-original three-quarter time music of Robert Stolz, who conducted a well-trained and inspired orchestra. It was, however, the superb coloratura soprano of Virginia MacWatters which turned the otherwise insipid show into what might well...
...audiences, continuing to applaud the 55-year-old Cavalleria (which has had more than 250 performances at the Met), disregarded the composer's Fascist foolishness. Many had even forgotten that he still lived, that he and Richard Strauss were the only living men among the composers in the Met's 1944-45 season...
...Johann Strauss: Waltzes (Robert Stolz and orchestra; Decca, 8 sides). Blue Danube, Southern Roses and the others played as written-with bounce. Performance and recording: good...
...Richard Strauss: Death and Transfiguration (New York City Symphony Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski conducting; Victor, 6 sides). Too mature a score for the orchestra's record debut. Performance: fair. Recording: good...
...music proves the biggest disappointment. Emmerick Kalman's score cannot make up its mind whether it is trying to imitate Strauss's "Rosalinda" or the Rodgers technique. It falls somewhere in the middle. However, two or three songs are likely candidates for popular favor, "Sigh by Night," "One Last Love Song," and "Treat a Woman Like a Drum...