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...Quixote has always been the black sheep among the Richard Strauss tone poems. It has consistently been denied the great popularity of the earlier works, even of later works like Ein Heldenleben. Probably the reason is its extreme digressiveness: it rambles along, absolutely unfettered by considerations of structure, and the resulting lack of logic makes irritating, and even bewildering listening for many. Yet in many ways it is Strauss's greatest work. It shows a variety and a breadth of spirit unequalled in anything else he wrote. The humor in Till Eulenspiegel, for example, is obvious stuff compared...
...Concert Master" Strauss Waltzes...
...whole Chrysler collection on exhibition, and 989 art lovers including Richmond's floweriest socialites went to look. To do right by the occasion, Collector Chrysler chartered a private railroad car, arrived in Richmond with 58 convivial friends. While a 15-piece orchestra played waltzes by Johann Strauss, Mr. Chrysler and friends leaped joyfully up the Museum's wide staircases to his very own art show...
...Strauss: Don Quixote (Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy conducting, with Cellist Emanuel Feuermann; Victor; 10 sides; $5.50). In this tone-poem the Don is a cello, and the adventures are complete down to the last bleat (muted brass) of the sheep he fancies are an army. The Philadelphians and the soloist do a top-notch...
Mitropoulos wowed his first Manhattan audience by performing, from memory and without baton, a tough and little-played work, Richard Strauss's Sinfonia Domestica - 45 minutes of sound representing a particularly lurid day in the Strauss family. Mitropoulos wowed his orchestra too, although some of them resented having to work hard for a change...