Word: heldenleben
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...Monteux, Composer Davis' brother-in-law. Like the now classic Negro Rhapsody of John Powell which followed it, Mrs, Davis' opus was agreeably straightforward. Her knight errant did a good deal of pale loitering and sounded a great deal like the hero of Richard Strauss's Heldenleben but as Opus I it rated at least a passing mark...
...little Symphony in A Major, which Mozart wrote at the age of 18, and which was introduced by the Boston Symphony last year, will be repeated. The program will conclude with Strauss's tone poem, "Ein Heldenleben...
After this slight Apologia Pro Columna Sua we must turn to grander things. Tonight in Sanders Theatre the Boston Symphony Orchestra will play Strauss's. "Ein Heldenleben," a "Tondichtung," or in simplified terms "A Hero Life" a "Tone Poem." Out of deference to the artistic spirit the Vagabond will not launch into his usual scholarly criticism. He is willing, may desirous, of abiding by the composer's dictum that, "There is no need of a program. It is enough to know that a hero is fighting his enemies." That is the crux of the whole work; bear it in mind...
...mentioning a lecture on Richard Strauss, by the fact that that composer was perhaps the first, frankly to use cacaphony in the modern sense. Not that he was unable, as many modern composers seem to be to write most beautiful melodies, yet certainly in such works as "Ein Heldenleben", he points the way to the modern "realistic" tendency. Professor Hill will give the lecture at 12 o'clock in the Music Building...
...surprising, then, that his second field turned out to be orchestral composition, particularly the tone poem, that free vehicle for originality. His melodious yet powerful Don Juan, an early work, remains his most popular tone poem; others, as Thus Spake Zarathustra, probed deep into philosophy; another, Heldenleben (Life of a Hero), was admittedly satirical autobiography, with realistic passages presenting the jabbering of critics. Then came, perhaps thirdly, though somewhat intermittent and extended in date, his fine concert songs (lieder), the equal in art of the great of all times in that field. Fourth was opera, which at first he twice...