Next to Salome’s, the most popular of operatic strip teases is that of Massenet’s sin-shunning Thais. Because dramatic sopranos with decently strippable figures are rare, and because Massenet’s music ...
Program notes by the editor ([12] p.) inserted in container. Folkways: FW 8851 (additional no. on spine: F-8851). Various local performers. Recorded in Mexico by Laura Bolton. Contents Fireworks music ...
¶Last autumn Manhattan’s New York Philharmonic-Symphony Society gave its $1,000 annual prize “for a major symphonic work by a U. S. composer” to blond-mustached David Van Vactor of Evanston, Ill. Last ...