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...Beethoven 2) Tschaikovsky 3) Mozart 4) Wagner 5) Schubert 6) Bach 7) Richard Strauss 8) Gershwin 9) Johann Strauss 10) Liszt 11) Handel 12) Verdi...
...Entertainment held the field. Thornton Wilder's cockeyed The Skin of Our Teeth started ten thousand arguments, sold a quarter of a million seats and won the Pulitzer Prize. Oklahoma!, musicomedy's least orthodox offering in years, was also its most charming and successful. As Rosalinda, Johann Strauss's 6g-year-old, waltz-drenched Die Fledermaus became a surprise smash...
...Beverage Plans. And it is simplicity itself. No futuristic dream, Rose's postwar world is merely the good old days. Beginning with a riotous "Night of Unconditional Surrender," it shows a restored Gay Paree of foamy-petticoated cancan dancers; a restored lustige Wien waltzing to Lehar and Strauss; a melodious potpourri of old Jerome Kern tunes. Last comes a Victory Ball attended by Roosevelt, Churchill, Chiang Kai-shek and Stalin. Making up in jubilation for what it lacks in taste, Rose's version of the Four Freedoms is four galumphing female heavyweights...
...following evening, Symphony Hall heard one of the most varied and successful programs of the year, which included everything from Bach to Brahms, Strauss, Wolf and Borodin. If the before mentioned concert proved that unknown works can be a success, this proved that known quantities can be even more so. The Third Brandenburg Concerto in G Major is a tried and trusted quantity, although one might have wished for a few less strings than the Boston Symphony can throw into the fray at any time. Previously this year, more than competent performances of Thus Spake Zarathustra and Don Quixote were...
...time. He hired the finest operatic artists he could find, supervised their operas, conducted in the pit-and ended by reinvigorating the whole art of opera in England. On the side, he conducted symphony concerts in Queen's and Royal Albert Halls, introduced England to compositions by Sibelius, Strauss, Stravinsky, Delius and many other contemporaries...