Although his music is popular, Strauss remains an enigma to some and a polarizing figure for others. To mark the composer's sesquicentennial,... Music by Richard Strauss is heard in symphony halls and ...
In the last four years of his life, Richard Strauss seldom heard his works performed by his own countrymen. The post World War II silent treatment was his penalty for having meekly allowed himself to ...
The Department of Music at Hope College will celebrate composer Richard Strauss’ 160th birth year with a “Richard Strauss Gala Concert” on Wednesday, Oct. 11, at 7 p.m. in the Concert Hall of the Jack ...
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 ...
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 ...
Die Westfaelische Landeszeitung, Bavarian Nazi paper, today praised in the highest terms Richard Strauss, Austro-German composer and conductor known for his Nazi sympathies, for having withdrawn a ...
In the winter of 1907, Manhattan had its most celebrated operatic scandal. Critics scolded, pulpits seethed. The solemn, stiff-collared directors of the Metropolitan Opera House went into a huddle, ...