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TIME, Dec. 26 issue, reporting the Jewish Tribune's plan to erect a statue to the late Oscar Strauss, said that only two public statues of Jews existed in the U. S.-those of Poet Heinrich Heine and onetime Mayor Nathan Barnert of Paterson, N. J. Since have come information of statues to Alfred Benjamin in Kansas City, Mo., Israel Marks in Meridian, Miss. (LETTERS, Jan. 23 ?. 30) and, now, to Nathan Morris in Indianapolis...
...rehearsing. Therefore, Bartók played his Rhapsody. The substitution was unfortunate. The Rhapsody is 24 years old now, the product of an immature genius. Bartók the Original began like all great composers as an imitator. First Brahms was his idol, then Liszt, then Wagner, then Richard Strauss by reason of his Zarathustra, then Liszt again. It seemed peculiarly ironic last week that the Rhapsody, fruit of the Liszt influence, should have been chosen as his introduction, for the mature Bartók has now turned his back on Liszt and his theatrics. Liszt claimed a native Hungarian...
Last week two premieres were announced for a double bill. Die Maien- konigen was the curtain-raiser, a pastoral meringue, mixed & baked, it is said, by no less a man than Gluck for the birthday palate of Maria Theresa. Then came Richard Strauss's Feuersnot...
...opera houses of Europe, Feuersnot is an old story. Strauss finished it in 1901 (it antedates Salome, Elektra, Der Rosenkavalier, his three operas known in the U. S.) when the afterglow of the Mightier Richard still blinded the young composers of the day, sending tunes from Tristan and Siegfried watered and warped into a thousand insignificant attempts. But Strauss even then could stand alone. He quoted, to be sure, from Rheingold but he quoted deliberately, when it suited him to have Wagner pop out of the back-ground of his libretto as the great forerunner of himself?the great Strauss...
...Detroit Symphony can never be without a soloist of the first magnitude so long as it can keep Ossip Gabrilowitsch. Last week he brought it eastward for its first Manhattan concert of the season, as conductor put it through the Don Juan of Richard Strauss and Brahms' First Symphony; gave his baton to Victor Kolar and turned pianist for Rachmaninoff's Second Concerto. Critics and audience alike had unqualified approval for Conductor-Pianist Gabrilowitsch, musician & poet, for the Detroit Symphony, waxing stronger each season. The verdict for the best orchestral demonstration of the season, however, remained unchanged, stayed...