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...opera, not that it mattered, was Richard Strauss's Rosenkavalier, heralding a season of decidedly Germanic tone, including two complete revolutions of the Wagner Ring...
...program follows: Marche Militaire Schubert Overture to "Ruy Blas" Mendelssohn "On the Steppes of Middle-Asia" Orchestra Sketch Borodin Orchestral Sketch Sixth Hungarian Rhapsody Liszt Overture to "Sicilian Vespers" Verdi Symphonic Piece from "Redemption" Franck Suite, "Peer Gynt" Grieg First Hungarian Dance in G minor Brahms Waltz, "Artists' Life" Strauss Entrance of the Guests into the Wartburg, from "Tannhauser" Wagner
...popular character to suit the warmer season. They were modelled after the "Bilse" Concerts of Berlin, the formal rows of seats and tables were removed and tables were so installed so that one might sip wine or beer, munch a sandwich or smoke, while listening to a waltz of Strauss or a march of Sousa...
They came, scores of calls. At last Herr Strauss stuffed the bell of his telephone. Then letters and telegrams poured in. People brought him dead cats and said ,he had advertised for them. Three florid women came with valises, and went away insulted. Some two hundred children came with jelly glasses full of spiders. They had heard that Herr Strauss could pay for them. It was bedlam, pandemonium...
...explanation came, last week, except the guess that enemies of Composer Strauss must have devised this cruel means to hound an old man out of Vienna, to perhaps drive him mad. Herr Strauss has many enemies; for he has played many a practical joke, sometimes leading an orchestra deliberately wrong and then reviling the know-nothing audience when it applauds...