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...Richard Strauss, another sail-trimmer, is active at 76. Although he lives near Munich, he lately visited Berlin, conducted performances of his operas Ariadne and Arabella. Last spring he wrote a festival piece for Axis-partner Japan-an apotheosis of the 2,600th anniversary of the founding of the Japanese Empire...
Richard Barrows '43, Howard C. Bennett Jr., Charles S. Borden '43, Arthur V. Cambell 3rd '44, Thomas J. Crockett 3rd '43, Bruce B. Phenister '44, Charles B. Strauss '44, Gurden W. Watties '42 to Literary Board...
Musically, the most notable Chicago operas were two performed last week: Richard Strauss 's Salome, blazingly conducted by Artur Rodzinski; and the best of modern Italian works, The Love of Three Kings, conducted by its Composer Italo Montemezzi. Best opera in English was Verdi's Falstaff, retranslated from the Italian to sound something like Shakespeare. Baritone John Charles Thomas patterned his make-up from a Falstaff beer advertisement, said "Falstaff is just a plain red-nosed comedian to me," acted that way. He got one of his laughs by singing, right out, "Go to hell...
...arts and sciences must be purified. No more need peaceful, respectable persons listen to the barbaric, Hunnish melodies of Brahms, Bach, Beethoven Mozart, Mendelssohn, Wagner, Schubert, Strauss; no more need our ears be offended at Christmas time by the hellish notes of Stille Nacht, the voice of Schumann-Heink; no more of the militaristic preachings of Schiller, Goethe, Luther...
...this worldly environment, young Marian Evans had long feared that she might become "earthly, sensual and devilish." She wrote little but translations, but even these were a moral hazard: she had lost her faith while translating Strauss's Life of Jesus. She was about to lose something else. Says Author Haight: "The sensual side seems to have developed to a marked degree while she was translating The Essence of Christianity." From this work Marian learned Philosopher Ludwig Feuerbach's notions about free love. She had met "the ugliest man in London," George Lewes, the biographer of Goethe...