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Thirty-five years ago German Composer Richard Strauss and his librettist, Dramatist Hugo von Hofmannsthal, went back to Greek drama for a subject. The result, Elektra, is the most hair-raising of modern operas...
Music for Three Waltzes was written by three homonymous composers. For Act I the melodies are Johann Strauss Sr.'s, popular Viennese bandleader of the mid-19th Century. Act II is credited to his son, Johann Jr., who wrote over 400 dance tunes, many operettas (Die Fledermaus, et al.). Act III's music is by Oscar Straus (Chocolate Soldier...
...second night, with Society's annual mass raid over for the year, Richard Strauss' Rosenkavalier, first of the forthcoming three-opera "Strauss cycle," provided Soprano Lotte Lehmann with one of her most famous and mellowest roles, that of the absent Field Marshal's wife. On the third night debuts began...
...musicians the two biggest living composers in the world are undoubtedly Finland's Sibelius and Germany's Richard Strauss (Salome, Der Rosenkavalier). U. S. audiences would probably include a third-dapper, chameleonesque Igor Stravinsky (Le Sacre du Printemps, Petroushka...
Alcibiades E. Sophes '38, Lowell; Robert H. Sproat, 3d '38, Newton; Elliot G. Strauss '40, Mattapan; Felix F. Stumpf '38, Cambridge; Sidney Sulkin '39, Dorchester; Charles G. Swain '40, Wellaston; Marshall W. Swan '39, Milton; Harold R. Taylor '39, Somerville; John F. Tynan '38, Cambridge; Albert E. Weiner '38, Waltham; Robert E. Wernick '38, Brighton; Frank C. Wheelock Jr. '39, Springfield; Frank S. White, Jr. '39, Mattapoisett...