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...Strauss (who seldom does what is expected of him and who shuns the obvious) was dissatisfied, unhappy. Said...
...prominent personality in the music world celebrated his 60th birthday; City of Vienna made this the occasion for a gala week. Honors both frothy and substantial were recklessly poured upon the head of Richard Strauss. He was handed the keys of the city, he was created generalissimo of the combined musical forces, productions of numbers of his works-including his earliest and his latest-were arranged, he was presented with a villa erected at municipal expense in the gardens of the palace of the ex-Crown Prince...
Certainly Strauss, at 60, has behind him a record of achievement that could be equalled by few. At the age of six he was already composing. His biographer Steinitzer says: "He wrote notes before he learned the letters of the alphabet." At 16 he was a prodigy of prodigies; he had written songs, piano pieces, chamber music, orchestral overtures and choral works, nearly a hundred in number. One of these, a trifle called Whipped Cream, is now being resurrected in Vienna...
...horn Concerto was written for his father, the greatest horn player of his time, who did not like it. His first important work was the tone-poem, Aus Italien, which contains a characteristic Strauss mood: "Melancholy Feelings While Basking in the Sunniest Present." Then followed his famous series of dazzling orchestral tales, path-breaking in form and harmony: Macbeth (1890), Don Juan (1888), Death and Transfiguration (1889), Till Eulenspiegels Merry Pranks (1895), Thus Spake Zarathustra (1896) and Don Quixote (1898) with its notorious sheep-bleating episode...
...program for the Symphony "Pops" Concert tonight will be as follows; Overture to "The Beautiful Galatea" Suppe Waltz, "1001 Nights" Strauss Furlana from "La Gioconda" Ponchielli Fantasia, "Iris" Mascagni Ballet Suite, "Syivia" Delibes Spanish Dance, "Panaderos" Glabounov Romance Rimsky-Korsakov Overture to "Rienzi" Wagner Selection, "The Tales of Hoffmann" Offenbach Deep River Burleigh-Jacchia "Stars and Stripes Forever" Sousa