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Julia lived in an exciting world, and knew it. She heard Adelina Patti sing, was carried away by Johann Strauss's conducting, thrilled to Col. Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte's eyewitness account of Balaclava, wrote exclamation-filled pages on the Franco-Prussian War, and mourned, as even a poor little rich girl could, the Chicago Fire which swept away their grand house, her studio with its private staircase...
...audience broke into cheers when chunky little old Maraella Sembrich came on as the Empress' mother. Grand Duchess Marie was magnificently regal as the Tsarina of Russia. Conductor Walter Damrosch, who likes to dress up, was impressively pontifical as the Abbe Franz Liszt. Jascha Heifetz was Johann Strauss, conducting the orchestra with his violin bow and fid- dling as the spirit moved him. Piano-Maker Theodore Steinway tried to impersonate bigheaded Richard Wagner. Violinist Albert Spalding caused a momentary stir when he came before the court and said: "I, Paganini, am not dead." He played none too well...
...program will be as follows: Overture to "Oberon" Weber Symphony in D Major No. 104 (London) Haydn Adagio-allegro Andante Menuetto Allegro spiritoso Interval ;Petite Suite Debussy En Bateau Cortege Menuet Ballet Andante eantabile from the Fifth Symphony Tchaikovsky "Tales from the Vienna Woods" waltzes Johann Strauss "Dance of the Hours" from the opera "La Gioconda" Ponchielli
Married. Alice Muriel Astor Obolensky, 31, sister of Vincent Astor, divorced wife of Prince Serge Platonovitch Obolensky Neledinsky Meletsky (of Russia's oldest noble family); and Raimund von Hofmannsthal, 26, Austrian writer, son of Richard Strauss's late librettist, Hugo von Hofmannsthal; secretly; in Newark...
Last week Strauss's Schlagobers had its U. S. premiere in a concert suite conducted by Bruno Walter with the New York Philharmonic-Symphony. Most critics pounced on it as asinine stuff well-named. They remarked, not for the first time, that the genius who wrote Elektra and Rosenkavalier, Till Eulenspiegel and Don Juan, had petered out. Strauss's amazing orchestrations are taken so much for granted that no one thought to comment on the fact that the worst of Strauss is better than the best of most present-day composers...