Olin Downes, music critic for the New York Times, made a point of attending the Richard Strauss Festspiele at Frankfort-am-Main the last days of August; and it was his chance to watch ...
The Vienna telephone of Herr Richard Strauss, 62. famed eccentric composer, rang an odd hundred times last week, each time to shriek at him a message more bewildering than the last: “Richard, my old ...