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Last week a great flood of carefully prepared talk about such composers as Beethoven, Tchaikowsky, Dvorak, Strauss, Wagner, Brahms, was heard all over the country in felt-carpeted apartments and soundproof cubicles which have for years echoed with arguments and ecstasies over Paul Whiteman, Irving Berlin, Al Jolson, Van & Schenk, Harry Lauder. The Victor Co. last week set out to make "his master's voice" the voice of the masters. Of all the factors that have made the U. S. suspicious, as a nation, of any music less candid than jazz and coon songs, no factor is more important...
...Sage '27; Carl Setzer '29; R. T. Sharpe '28; T. B. Shea '28; S. N. Shurtleff '27; M. H. Siegel '29; Henry Simon '29; H. J. Slaughter '29; R. T. Smith '27; Herman Snyder '27; Pierpoint Stackpole '27; G. L. Stebbins Jr. '28; A. J. Stewart '29; W. V. Strauss '28; W. D. Street '27; C. C. Taylor '28; Samuel Taylor '27; W. S. Tower Jr. '29; Abraham Weinstein '29; R. G. West '29; R. C. Westgate '28; A. G. Whitney '29; H. F. Williams '27; Norman Winer '29; D. P. K. Wood '28; H. R. Wood...
...Sabin is chairman of the building fund committee which includes E. Roland Harriman, Charles Hayden, Philip Le Boutillier and Frederick Strauss. Officers of The Boys Club of New York are: Charles H. Sabin president; William W. Skiddy, W. Averell Harriman and Allan McCulloh, vice presidents; Henry Stanford Brooke, secretary, and Richard A. Strong treasurer...
...Whatever of Strauss's "last works" were meant by Critic Riesmann, there is a very substantial achievement on record, the dates of success in which carry on steadily to the present. Strauss is distinguished in at least four fields of music. Though his early compositions were not remarkable, he was even then known, and is still admired and feared, as peer of the greatest orchestral conductors. "He knew every instrument, and imperiously got what he wanted," said one critic. A veritable prima donna for temper, he once threatened to hurl his baton in the faces of the Weimar choir...
...confused with Johann Strauss (1825-99) famed composer of Viennese waltzes, including The Beautiful Blue Danube...