Word: strausses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Munich, a denazification court gave 84-year-old Composer Richard Strauss a clean bill of health: all he had done while the Nazis were in power was stick to his unpolitical music...
...Richard Strauss: Ein Heldenleben (Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner conducting; Columbia, 10 sides). A wag once tried to describe this fustian piece: "It is he, the Hero, and he has been drinking again. He is in E flat, and his cuffs are soiled by numerous dissonances . . . Four plain-clothes detectives come in on a sharp glissando, and, seizing the Hero, throw over his head a dark-tasting chord . . ." Performance: good. Suite from Der Rosenkavalier (Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy conducting; Columbia, 6 sides). Some of the pleasantest music Richard Strauss ever wrote, pleasingly played. Recordings: good...
Boston Pops Orchestra--Paul Cherkassy conducts among other items, some Strauss waltzes, a selection from "Oklahoma," the slow movement from Tscharkowsky's fifth symphony, and Bach's Air on the G-string. At Symphony Hall...
...Richard Strauss's Till Eulenspiegel: "An hour of original music in a lunatic asylum." On Edvard Grieg: his music gave "the charming and bizarre sensation of eating a pink bon-bon stuffed with snow." On Richard Wagner: "His impunity as a despot almost excused his imperturbable vanity." Debussy admitted that Wagner had his points: the music of Parsifal is "incomparable and bewildering, splendid and strong...
Professor John H. Finley's complacent gentlemen from Eliot House ambled to first place in the spring intramural competitions to capture the Strauss Trophy, emblematic of House athletic supremacy, for the second straight year...