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...Richard Strauss, of Nazi Germany, whose only rival to the title of greatest living composer is Jean Sibelius, of Nazi-dominated Finland, has dared to defy the Führer. The story came out last week in the Schweizer Illustrierte Zeitung of Zurich, Switzerland...
...Strauss had been ordered to put up a dozen air-raid refugees from Munich "as Hitler's guests" at the composer's country house in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, which is near Hitler's Berchtesgaden eyrie. Strauss refused. As an old man of 80, he said, he felt entitled to privacy and peace. Nazi officials took the matter to Hitler himself. The Führer declared that Strauss's recalcitrance would mean the cancellation of his birthday celebrations throughout the Reich. Strauss replied that Hitler could cancel anything he wished, and added: "It was not I who started...
Despite the success of Blossom Time (Franz Schubert) and The Great Waltz (Johann Strauss) the rather obvious idea of building an operetta around the life of Norwegian Composer Edvard Hagerup Grieg apparently occurred to nobody until a year ago. Then it suddenly burgeoned in the brain of Edwin Lester, director of the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera Association. He proceeded to turn out one of the most lavish and expensive ($110,000) productions the Association has ever staged. Song of Norway opened in Los Angeles last fortnight and by last week, it was looking like...
...Richard Strauss, generally rated the greatest living composer, a consistent opponent of the Nazis, who nevertheless in 1940 composed and dedicated to the Mikado a piece in honor of the 2,600th anniversary of the Japanese Imperial dynasty...
Szell's Wagner, like his Strauss and Moussorgsky, is remarkable not only for power and dramatic vitality (as was that of the late Artur Bodanzky) but also for its meticulous clarity. He manages to keep the highest lucidity of musical patterns among half-a-dozen stars, a hundred chorus singers and a hundred orchestra players. He does this by being one of the most coldly efficient tyrants who ever stood in the Metropolitan's orchestra...