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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...