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Opinion is divided regarding the resignation of Richard Strauss, famed composer, from the Vienna Opera. The resignation was the result of differences of opinion existing between Strauss and Franz Schalk, his codirector. Strauss wanted many new programs. Schalk favored less innovation on economic grounds...
Tomorrow evening in Jordan Hall, a concert by Abbie Conley Rice, contralto. She will sing numbers by Haendel, Arne, Haydn, Strauss and Chausson...
...agreeable Fontane di Roma. His latest offering, while it has never before been heard in Manhattan, actually was composed before the other, and shows it. It is an effective com- position, but with traces of immaturity and it is unhappily reminiscent. There is Tchaikovsky in it, and Puccini, Strauss and, above all, Wagner. But it was well and carefully delivered and welcomed with enthusiasm by the audience. A little perplexity was caused by the fact that, obviously a piece of program music, no key was given to its meaning. The orchestra itself is better than ever...
This evening in Jordan Hall a song recital by Tom Williams, baritone. His programme includes songs by Buononcini, Gretry, Rhene-Baton, Chausson, Richard Strauss, Griffes, Glazounov, and Gretchaninov...
Sunday afternoon in Symphony Hall, the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, led by Mr. van Hoogstraten, will play Strauss's "Till Eulenspiegel" and "Salome's Dance", Beethoven's "Eroica" Symphony and Tschaikovsky's Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, No. 2, with Yolanda Mero, well known pianiste, playing the solo part. Mr. van Hoopstraten gave a notable reading here last autumn of the "Pathetique" Symphony, the first concert of the Steinert series...