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...Executive Committee: Henry P. Fletcher, Ferric C. Galpin, M. Preston Goodfellow, Herbert Hoover, Richard W. Lawrence, Chauncey Mc-Cormick, Dave Hennen Morris, Maurice Pate, Edgar Rickard, Lewis L. Strauss, W. Hallam Tuck, Allen Wardwell. - Lars Moen, an American chemist who was caught in Belgium by the Blitzkrieg, reported in his recent book Under the Iron Heel (Lippincott; $2.75) that scores of Belgians told him "perhaps the major" share of food sent from the U. S. to Belgium during World War I was diverted to feed the Germans...
Most pompously egotistical work in all symphonic music is Richard Strauss's Ein Heldenleben (A Hero's Life). It not only brassily depicts its hero besting his detractors, but, by quoting snatches from Don Juan, Don Quixote, Death and Transfiguration, etc., announces that the hero is Herr Strauss himself. On sale last fortnight in Manhattan shops was a new recording of Ein Heldenleben, by Artur Rodzinski and the Cleveland Orchestra (Columbia: 10 sides; $5.50). It was well recorded but not the best ever (most sweeping performance is Victor's 1928 version, by Willem Mengelberg). What made news...
...second half of the program is devoted to some waltzes from Johann Strauss's oriental opera, La Reine Indigo, Constant Lambert's jazzy, flashy, but not too consequential Rio Grande, and the opening chorus from Verdi's Othello...
...Crimson Concert Hall: Richard Strauss, Thus Spake Zarathustra, Debussy, Iberia...
...Arthur Sullivan, Stephen Foster, Richard Strauss...