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...Sabbath morning 27 years ago the preachers of New York City looked over their congregations to find many of their most prominent parishioners absent. That same morning there was a dress rehearsal of Richard Strauss's Salome at the Metropolitan Opera House. To it had gone many a rich and respectable churchgoer to see how Olive Fremstad would exhibit her fanatical lust for the body of St. John the Baptist. The churchgoers were offended enough by the screaming dissonances and the way Fremstad brought the horrid head up to the footlights, caressed the matted black hair, kissed the cold...
...committees are; Adams, Charles Feibleman '36, G. Raymond Dennet '36; Brooks, Abraham J. Creidenberg '34, Powers McLean '35; Dunster, Edward N. Kimball '35, Samuel W. Pillsbury '36; Eliot, John A. Strauss '36, Victor H. Kramer '35; Leverett, Julian S. Bach '36, C. Lowell Harriss '34; Lowell, Charles R. Cherington '35, Herbert A. Fierst '35; Kirkland, Joseph A. Weber, Jr. '35, Frank J. Casale '35; Winthrop, William H. Jefferys '36, Leonard C. Levin...
...flutes, Kuhlau, Radcliffe College Orchestra; Fingal's Cave Overture, Mendelsshohn, Danse Russe Trepak, Tchaikowsky, Harvard University Orchestra; Double Concerto for two violins in D minor, Bach, Priscilla Thierry, George K. Mateye '34; Radcliffe College Orchestra and the Harvard University Orchestra, conducted by Mrs. Bailey; Tales from the Vienna Woods, Strauss...
...many respects but he never forgets the debt he owes to the self-sacrificing mother who is at once the most human and the most herioc person in the biography. Mr. Ewen presents the contemporary life of the musician very factually; he considers the European tours of both the Strauss' and gives a full account of the triumph achieved by the younger Straus in his American visit to Philadelphia...
...music of the carefree fellows it portrays. Here biography and character go hand in hand without serious thought or effect. The book is another biography of a minor figure in musical history; Mr. Ewen cannot be expected to create a master-piece for he lacks original material, the Strauss' were not men of musical stature, the events in their lives, with a few momentary triumphs are not the material upon which one can successfully lose a serious biography...