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...were: a Scottish Suite by Adolph Deutsch, Whiteman's short, bespectacled chief arranger; the now familiar cacophonies of Ferde Grofé's Tabloid; Deutsch's Essay on Waltzes wherein the hybrid orchestra pieced together remnants of Beethoven, Gounod, Delibes, Tchaikovsky, George Evans, Chopin, Franz Lehar, Oscar Strauss and Johann Strauss. A blues clarinetist leaped into a long, screaming, upward run; Roy Bargy followed with incredibly nimble piano work and splashed hot chords into the Rhapsody in Blue. Beaming, Paul Whiteman about-faced, took many bows, and the All-American jazz concert was over...
...called the cream of the Boston concerts, Dr. Koussevitsky has made an unusually fine program for the Second Sanders Theatre Symphony concert to be held tonight. Stravinsky's orchestral music for the ballet 'Lo Baiser do la Fee" is the opening number, and is to be followed by Strauss's tone poem, "Don Juan", and Sibelius's Fifth Symphony. All three of these have been written within the last fifty years--the first in 1928 and the last in 1889--and their composers are still alive, but there is a world of difference between them. Only Stravinsky can be classed...
...portrayal of post-War confusion, reaching its climax when Dancer Elsa Kahl, as a laborer's wife, discards her drab clothes to join the women of the streets. With frothy moods Choreographer Jooss is less successful. A Ball in Old Vienna is only tritely pretty. Johann Strauss, Tonight! is a cluttered potpourri which does little more than show that Elsa Kahl can turn a cartwheel...
...tone poem, "Don Juan," by Richard Strauss is also on the program. Written in 1887-88, it portrays not Byron's, but Nicolaus Lenau's Don Juan--a hero who longed for the ideal woman and failed to find her. Sibelius's Fifth Symphony is a fitting close to this fine concert...
JEROME B. STRAUSS...