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Died. Alfred Hertz. 69, black-bearded, bald conductor of German opera at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera from 1902 to 1915, director of the San Francisco Symphony for the following 15 years; in San Francisco. At the Met he conducted the first U.S. performances of Richard Strauss's Salome and Rosenkavalier...
Victor spells it "Szostakowicz," Columbia "Shastakowitch," and to the general public it means some of the best music to come out of Europe since Strauss and Sibelius said their last important says. He is already considered by many critics the White Hope of the symphony, although his name has not yet crept into the Widener stacks. The greatest factor in this meteoric rise was, of course, the great qualities of his music, but the Soviet Propaganda machine, through which he is new Russia's Composer Laureate and intellectual idol, also had a great deal to do with it. Back...
...genial pantheistic pagan who has achieved complete harmony within himself is entirely false. Mahler lived in a confused time and was himself a mass of contradictory tendencies. You have in him the paradox of a composer who, in contrast to the tone-painting and theme-overlapping of Wagner and Strauss, wrote in the classical symphonic form with a sound knowledge of counter-point, yet one who was essentially homophonic in style and never attained the balance and integrated development that the classical forms imply...
...loud Philadelphian applause testified that it was all perfectly natural. The opera, old Vienna's "grand operetta" Die Fledermaus (The Bat) by Waltz King Johann Strauss, furnishes a place for interpolated entertainment. To hire Larry Adler for The Bat was just one more bright idea of the Philadelphia Opera Company, a young, English-singing troupe which has been tossing off bright operatic ideas for three seasons. Besides the solo Blue Danube, Larry Adler had two en cores up his sleeve-Liszt's Second Hungarian Rhapsody. Ravel...
...planned. She sang in Paris five days before the Germans arrived, then spent three days getting to Bordeaux. Soprano Djanel has sung Carmen 80 times in her twelve-year career. She is blonde, wears a black wig for the gypsy and her other special role, Salome in Richard Strauss's opera. But the Met has canceled plans to present Djanel's Salome-partly because it involves heavy royalties to the Nazified composer (although now he could not collect them...