George Szell was Strauss' assistant and recalled that this session was in the fall of 1916, when he was 19. The session was in the morning and Strauss was late, so the engineer told Szell after he rehearsed it that he would make the first take. Side one was done, and still no Strauss. After side two, Strauss entered, beaming: "in this case one can cheerfully bite the dust if one sees such a young generation come along." He told Polydor he was happy to have the Szell sides released under Strauss' name.
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