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...Wonderful Night. Best known of Johann Strauss operas is Die Fledermaus (The Bat), which has been presented to various English-understanding audiences as Night Birds, The Merry Countess and is now offered by the Brothers Shubert under a persuasive title which suggests a Shubert burlesque or a cheap cinema. Since the humor-depending on a husband's seduction by a masked beauty who turns out to be his wife-is not certainly apparent to modern audiences, other Viennese values must be emphasized. Chief among these, of course, is the music, which the Shuberts have duly honored by hiring...
Other numbers in this series of concerts are Mozart's "Symphony in E-Flat Major", Ravel's "Suite from the Ballet, "Mother Goose", and the "Rondo for Orchestra" of Strauss, "Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks...
...Symphony concerts of Friday, November 15, and Saturday, November 16, the program is: Spohr's "Nocturne and Turkish Music for Wind Instruments", "Burma" and "Java" by Eichheim, and Strauss' "Sinfonia Domestica...
...last week his audience stood proudly to greet him and began the expected ovation, the little man quashed it with a quick bow, turned his back, tapped smartly for attention and began the business of the evening. The Overture to Byron's Manfred, the Don Quixote of Richard Strauss and Beethoven's Seventh Symphony-these comprised the Teutonic program which the Great Italian chose to deliver. And then, as if to justify his choice, he made of the flaccid Manfred a deeply despairing hero and touched the bemuddled Cervantes knight with the tenderness of a great comedian...
Metropolitan -- Beginning today "Fast Life" with Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Rubinoff presenting "Strauss Melodies...