Conductor Jakub Hrůša has become a pop star of Czech classical music. Accompanied by Kateřina Kněžíková, he takes us on a ...
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 ...
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 ...
A prominent personality in the music world celebrated his 60th birthday; City of Vienna made this the occasion for a gala week. Honors both frothy and substantial were recklessly poured upon the head ...
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 ...
Was Richard Strauss the greatest composer of the 20th century? No less an authority than Glenn Gould, the pianist who also was a lively music critic, suggested that Strauss and Schoenberg were the two ...
One of Richard Strauss's biggest and most ambitious pieces of music outside of his operas, was the tone poem Don Quixote,based on the book by Miguel de Cervantes. Strauss's version of Don Quixote is ...
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