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...Georgian March from the "Caucasian Sketches"Ippolitov-Ivanov *Overture to "The Merry Wives of Windsor" Nicolai *Spring (String Orchestra) *Bacchanale from "Samson and Delilah" Saint-Saens *Joyeuse Marche Chabrier Dances of Galanta Kodaly *Delirien," Waltzes Josef Strauss *Ouverture Solennelle, "1812" Tchaikoysky *Fantasy, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" Churchill-Bodge *"Swing Stuff" McBride Solo clarinet: Manuel Valerio (First performance) *First Hungarian Dance Brahms *Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square...
Though genial Offenbach's operettas were no great shakes individually, they set style that influenced practically every Popular composer of the 1870s, '80s and '90s. Most prominent of his followers were Vienna's Johann Strauss (Die Fledtrmaus), Oscar Straus (The Chocolate Soldier, and Franz Lehár (The Merry Widow) Strongly influenced also were England' s Gilbert & Sullivan (Pirates of Penzance, The Mikado, etc.), Irish-American Victor Herbert (The Red Mill, Naughty Marietta...
...spent his spare time plowing through courses at the Frankfurt Conservatory, studying violin, viola and composition. In 1915 he became head violinist of the Frankfurt Opera House, rose to the post of conductor. Among German composers his pre-Hitler reputation was second only to that of aging Richard Strauss...
...other writers whose works are of equal merit. Last year, with the entire "Ring" cycle and several individual Wagnerian operas all crowded into ten days, there was a complete lack of balance in the musical fare. That is why Verdi's "Otello," Mozart's "Don Giovanni," and Richard Strauss's "Der Rosenkavalier" are such welcome additions to the 1938 Boston list...
...comment need be made on a work which Rossini considered representative of "the perfect balance between science and genius," and so we pass over "Don Giovanni" to consider "Der Rosenkavalier." This opera combines expertly three phases of Strauss's genius, his dramatic flare in the overture, many a charming Vicnneso waltz and pure Mozart-like melodies. The trio for female voices, which foreshadows the duet for soprano and alto in "Arabella," has been ranked with the famous quintet from Wagner's "Dic Meistersinger." And the entrance of the Rosenkavalier in the second act, clad all in white...