Johann Strauss II

...day from Spain. Street parties were portrayed in a style that echoed European masters: Dvorak in folk themes woven into symphonic textures; Johann Strauss in a blustery march. Brooding cellos under a sad trumpet recalled Verdi; a...

In this article: Fort Worth, Orchestration, and Johann Strauss

...Gounod's "Faust," Adina in Donizetti's "L'Elisir D'Amore," Musetta in Puccini's "La Boheme," Rosalinde in Johann Strauss Jr.'s "Die Fledermaus" and the Composer in Strauss' "Ariadne auf Naxos." After 1964, she didn't return to an opera at the...

In this article: Elisabeth Soderstrom, Johann Strauss Jr., Der Rosenkavalier, Oxnard, Drottningholm Palace Theatre, Stockholm, and California

...invitation to romance, with Lane and Lerner's Open Your Eyes, an invitation to appreciate the world around us - and sets both against Johann Strauss's Emperor Waltz. This arrangement is one of the most ingenious and effective cases of...

In this article: Burton Lane, Jule Styne, Harold Arlen, Alan Jay Lerner, Dorothy Fields, Finian's Rainbow, Blues in the Night, and How About You?

...since Tauber knew his way around a podium, I thought I'd include a non-vocal example of his artistry, too, conducting of the overture to Johann Strauss' "Die Fledermaus." Note the number of his idiosyncratic touches, especially the very slow...

In this article: Richard Tauber, E mail, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, BBC Music Magazine, They Say It's Wonderful, Die Fledermaus, Occidental College in Los Angeles, Eisenhower College, and NPR

...said. "It's excerpts from all the highlights of the best opera." Other selections will include the overture to "Die Fledermaus" by Johann Strauss Jr.; Wagner's "Flying Dutchman" overture; the "March and Chorus" from Act IV of Bizet's...

In this article: Carmen, Flying Dutchman, Nabucco, Madama Butterfly, Aida, and Johann Strauss Jr

...would later appear in Warner Bros. "Looney Tunes." The wry quotations of Mendelssohn's "Wedding March" and bloated exaggerations of Johann Strauss had nothing on the flimsy instrumentation jumbled together in different keys and...

In this article: Michael Morgan, Jacques Ibert, Michael Daugherty, Darius Milhaud, Symphony No. 4, Johann Strauss, Disney, PDQ Bach, and Daniel Barenboim

...Jew Leopold Godowsky, who became a US citizen and later director of piano at Vienna's Music Academy a decade after the death of Johann Strauss II. Marc-AndrA© Hamelin's performance is full of life and the music oozes admiration for its...

In this article: Vienna and US