BOSTON - Composer Richard Strauss always had a flair for the dramatic. Electrifying operas like "Elektra" and "Salome" continue to captivate audiences with their powerful music, searing arias and ...
WHEN I was born, Richard Strauss was fortyeight and was composing the second version of Ariadne. I have wondered for most of my life what happened in the second half of his creative period, what ...
Like many eventual conservatives, the composer Richard Strauss (1864-1949) began as a radical, effectively reinventing the orchestral tone poem in the late 19th century, then testing the limits of ...
Some big-scale music by Richard Strauss later in the hour. First, some music he wrote for wind instruments. From his Sonatine for 16 Wind Instruments, we hear the Menuett. Members of the Orpheus ...
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 usual please-silence-the-phones admonition before the concert was more emphatic than usual. The audience was informed that this last of three performances would be recorded for possible commercial ...
Bard SummerScape unveiled a rare staging of Richard Strauss’s opera, composed amid the Nazis’ rise to power. By Oussama Zahr ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. — “Ha! A silent woman?,” sings the basso buffo ...
Captain, or colonel, or knight in arms, Whose chance on these defenceless doors may seize If deed of honor did thee ever please, Guard them, and him within protect from harms. . . . Lift not thy spear ...
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