According to Strauss and Gustave, Martel fought a brilliant battle, but realized he could not prevail because he was outnumbered so badly, and retreated.

Bartók's large-scale orchestral works were still in the style of Johannes Brahms and Richard Strauss, but he wrote a number of small piano pieces which showed his growing interest in folk music.

Flat Eric featured in the video for Mr. Oizo's " Flat Beat " in 1999 ; the puppet and instrumental UK number one were popularised through use in advert for Levi Strauss & Co. | Levi's Sta-Prest jeans.

A number of continental European émigrés to Britain and the United States — including Hannah Arendt, Karl Popper, Friedrich Hayek, Leo Strauss, Isaiah Berlin, Eric Voegelin and Judith Shklar — encouraged continued study in political philosophy in the Anglo-American world, but in the 1950s and 1960s they and their students remained at odds with the analytic establishment.

Strauss, as conductor, made a large number of recordings, both of his own music as well as music by German and Austrian composers.

Though the group had a number of members, Harry " Pittsburgh Phil " Strauss was the most prolific killer, committing over 100 murders ( some historians put the number as high as 500 ).

Kleiber's unique conducting style is preserved on video in a number of performances: Beethoven's Symphony No. 4 and Symphony No. 7 from the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Johann Strauss ' Die Fledermaus from Munich, Richard Strauss ' Der Rosenkavalier from both Munich and Vienna, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's 36th symphony and Brahms ' second symphony from the Musikverein in Vienna ; Beethoven's Coriolan Overture, Mozart's 33rd and Brahms ' fourth symphonies from Munich and Bizet's Carmen again from Vienna.

Strauss has been chair of a number of science fiction conventions, such as Boskone 3 in 1966 and RailCon in 1975 ; and a member of the committee for at least one Worldcon, Noreascon 3, in 1989.

The orchestra attracted a number of prominent guest conductors during these early years, including Edward Elgar and Richard Strauss, but was dissolved in 1910 because of financial difficulties.

He also made a number of recordings of a wide range of repertory, including music by Mozart, Richard Strauss, and Bela Bartók.

Richard Strauss, who scored for the heckelphone on a number of occasions, was an early enthusiast of the piccolo heckelphone, even using it in a performance of Bach's second Brandenburg Concerto, where it played the high trumpet part in the last movement.

There is also a Visitors Center at Levi Strauss & Co. world headquarters in San Francisco, which features a number of historical exhibits.

During the 1960s and 1970s, Strauss worked tirelessly as a fundraiser for various charities and organizations and also as a volunteer for a number of other organizations.

In 1991, Strauss left the mayoral position and worked as a consultant and trustee for a number of boards and foundations, including the Children's Medical Center Foundation, the Dallas Methodist Hospitals Foundation, the St. Paul Hospital Foundation, the Timberlawn Foundation and the Texas Historical Foundation.

For instance, a date seen in one of the newspaper clippings is actually Branagh's birthday, and Roman Strauss ' prisoner number is the date of the Battle of Agincourt.

There she sang the premieres of a number of operas by Richard Strauss, including Ariadne auf Naxos in 1916, Die Frau ohne Schatten in 1919, Intermezzo in 1924, and Arabella in 1933, as well as Vienna premieres of several operas by Puccini.

The writing very much carries with it the heritage of Richard Strauss ( although the influences of a number of other composers can be discerned-Gustav Mahler and Hugo Wolf for example, as well as Claude Debussy's harmonic palette in evidence in " Nacht "), through the expansiveness of gesture and ' opening of new vistas ,' and that of Richard Wagner.

* Leo Strauss, The Literary Character of the Guide for the Perplexed This essay has been printed in a number of volumes, including Buijs's volume ( above ) and as a chapter in Strauss's own " Persecution in the Art of Writing ".

Lear started her opera career as a member of the Städtische Oper Berlin in Richard Strauss ' Ariadne auf Naxos playing the Composer, a lead role which she would later play at a number of leading opera houses.

Antisemitism within the anti-globalization movement has been the subject of a number of writers and researchers such as Walter Laqueur, Paul Berman, and Mark Strauss.

In response to these criticisms, Strauss has written that antisemitic views " might not reflect the core values of the Global Justice Movement or its leading figures, yet they are facts of life in an amorphous, grassroots movement where any number of individuals or organizations express their opinions or seek to set the agenda ".

Strauss ' good friend Viktor Tilgner later recounted that the composer's quick thinking avoided a tragedy as he directed one of the actors to sing a popular number Ich denke gern zurück an mein entschwundnes Glück waltz romance song from the final Act again to divert the audience's attention.

They started positively, riding their luck and good favour with the umpires-a number of lbw appeals were turned down both before and after tea-as Strauss and Trescothick paired up for 80 for the first wicket before Strauss edged a classic pace-man's short-ball from Lee back into the bowler's waiting hands.

Guest conducting the BBC SO in the 1930s: from top left, clockwise, Thomas Beecham | Beecham, Serge Koussevitzky | Koussevitzky, Willem Mengelberg | Mengelberg, Richard Strauss, Arturo Toscanini | Toscanini, Bruno Walter | Walter, Anton Webern | Webern, Felix Weingartner | Weingartner

According to a study funded by Strauss, Israel's leading krembo producer, 69 % of Israelis prefer to eat krembos from the top down ( starting with the cream ), and only 10 % start with the biscuit at the bottom ; the rest had no preference.

' placed Myaskovsky in the top ten along with Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff, Shostakovich, Richard Strauss, Stravinsky, Sibelius, Ravel, de Falla and Fritz Kreisler.

Friendly rivalry was top of their intentions though, as Strauss dutifully premiered Offenbach's work as well as his own because the latter was not present on the day in question.

Rainer received top billing at the producer's insistence, but her role is comparatively minor as Strauss ' wife, Poldi Vogelhuber.

He picks up a manual on top of the piano: " How To Play The Waltz In Six Easy Lessons by Johann Strauss.

A world capital of music, the city played host to composers such as Brahms, Bruckner, Mahler and Richard Strauss.

As a reciter West has worked with all the major British orchestras, as well as the Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra, Dallas Symphony Orchestra and the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, D. C .. Works include Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex and The Soldier's Tale, Prokofiev's Eugene Onegin, Beethoven's Egmont, Schoenburg's Ode To Napoleon, Strauss ' Enoch Arden, Saint-Saëns ’ Carnival of the Animals, Bernstein's Kaddish, Walton's Façade and Henry V, Night Mail and The Way to the Sea by Britten and Auden and the world premieres of Concrete by Judith Weir at the Barbican and Howard Goodall ’ s Jason and the Argonauts at the Royal Albert Hall.

The other major piece of music used is the Eumir Deodato jazz / funk arrangement of the opening fanfare from Also Sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss, in the scene where Chance leaves the house and ventures out into the world for the first time.

But after the Soviet invasion of Finland, with Cripps off on a world tour, Strauss and Bevan became increasingly impatient at Hartshorn's unrelenting Stalinism.

This weakness that Strauss identifies is considered a strength of the ESV and other literal translations by proponents of that methodology, emphasizing that it reminds readers of the Bible's strangeness, coming from a world thousands of years gone, by not fitting it to grade-school English — when the texts themselves are not always grammatical — and modern Western sociocultural sensibilities, such as feminism and the pursuant gender-neutral debate ; and that it also allows for more transparency to the source texts, requiring less interpretation on the part of translators, with the goal of leaving as much semantic vagueness as the original texts possess visible to the reader in translation, not arbitrarily closing off exegetical choices to the reader at the level of translation.

He was particularly noted for his captaincy, having been praised from the likes of Shane Warne as the " best captain in world cricket " and most recently, Graeme Swann who said that Fleming is one of the two true leaders that he's ever seen, alongside Andrew Strauss.

With Der Rosenkavalier of 1910, Strauss changed direction, looking towards Mozart and the world of the Viennese waltz as much as towards Wagner.

An accomplished lawyer, Strauss founded the law firm now known as Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld in 1945, which has grown to be one of the largest in the world with offices in 15 cities and employing over 900 lawyers and professionals worldwide .< ref >

He has also directed and designed many classical productions with major theaters around the world including, The Threepenny Opera, The Golem and plays by Václav Havel, Botho Strauss, and Suzan-Lori Parks for The New York Shakespeare Festival, Die Fledermaus at the Paris Opera, Don Giovanni at the Opera de Lille, Philip Glass's Fall of the House of Usher at the American Repertory Theater and The Maggio Musicale in Florence, Woyzeck at Hartford Stage Company, Molière's Don Juan at the Guthrie Theater and The New York Shakespeare Festival, Kathy Acker's Birth of the Poet at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and the RO theater in Rotterdam, Gertrude Stein's Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights at the Autumn Festivals in Berlin and Paris.

* Four Last Songs ( Richard Strauss, world premiere ), with excerpts from ‘’ Tristan and Isolde ’’ and ‘’ Gotterdammerung ’’, ( Philharmonia Orchestra, cond.

Only two world wars later, Strauss would get involved in scandal again, for his way of realising what was then considered as the highest ambition: directing the Bayreuther Festspiele ).

Davis's article in National Review showed his displeasure with Curtis's depiction of Leo Strauss, claiming, " In Curtis's world, it is Strauss, not Osama bin Laden, who is the real evil genius.

In 1935, she sang the part of Aminta in the world premiere of Richard Strauss ' opera Die Schweigsame Frau under Karl Böhm at Dresden Semper Opera House.

Schreiber told Mansbridge that Franz Josef Strauss had a policy of helping to elect conservative-leaning governments around the world, by financing their campaigns, and that the Canadian case was just one example.

The first recorded instance of an American being converted to Buddhism on American soil occurred at the 1893 exposition on world religions and the convert had been a Jew named Charles Strauss.

Rittenberg's connections and experience have enabled him to run a successful consultancy business representing some of the world ’ s biggest brands, such as Intel, Levi Strauss, Microsoft, Hughes Aircraft and Teledesic.