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...minutes last week a tall, hulking old man stood before the curtains at the Dresden Opera while a great German audience hocked him until it was hoarse. He was Composer Richard Strauss and Dresden, in accordance with its tradition, had put on the world premiere of another of his operas. This one was Arabella, the libretto for which had been written by Strauss's longtime collaborator, Poet Hugo von Hofmannsthal, just before he died. It concerned the daughters of a bankrupt Viennese count, the youngest of whom paraded through three acts dressed as a boy and finally ended...
...Kahn's twice-married Son Gilbert, have been members of the firm. And Jacob Schiff's Grandson John, only 26 years old, became a partner, succeeding soon afterward to the large interest in the firm held by his father, the late Mortimer. Another partner is Lewis Lichtenstein Strauss (pronounced Straws) son-in-law of Jerome J. Hanauer who was one of the pillars of the firm till he retired last January...
...sixteenth note, has heard out of the mighty orchestra that is Germany only the discordant tone." The National Socialist Militant League for German Culture said: "As Germans we are convinced that artistically adequate interpreters of the works of Wagner will be found." Frau Wagner hastily announced that Composer Richard Strauss will conduct the opening Parsifal. Who else will be found is hard to guess...
...services. The opening night was sweltering hot but Conductor Stock seemed unmindful of the perspiration streaming down his face. He was back in the Auditorium where he used to play the viola under Theodore Thomas, his predecessor who supervised the Fair music in 1893. He conducted Wagner and Richard Strauss music with such force and inspiration that even his most finicky listeners wondered how they ever could have thought him stodgy...
...Rantoul, W. F. Read, A. C. Reggie, C. W. Robbins, J. W. Robinson, Shipherd Robinson, David Rockefeller, C. B. Rockwell, M. K. Ruddock, J. G. Scaunell, P. M. Schless, J. V. Shapiro, J. J. Slocum, A. B. Smith, F. N. Sommer, R. R. Spaulding, O. H. Straus, J. A. Strauss, F. E. Sweetser, A. M. Sweig, H. P. Patelman, P. H. Thayer, Jr., Albert Therudike, Jr., N. Thorndike, L. B. Whitney Marvin Williams, Rantson Wood