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...very well-received, and a chuckle skittered through the crowd when Yannatos called the women back to the stage for one last bow, a twin in each arm and a beam on his face.The final piece of the night was Richard Strauss’ “Ein Heldenleben,” or “A Heroic Life,” an exultant six-piece tone poem that depicts a hero’s journey. Though “Ein Heldenleben” has been criticized for its over-inflated and self-indulgent rhapsodic qualities...
Strauss: Ein Heldenleben--Richard Strauss' self-portrait, "A Hero's Life," is perfect music for Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia, lush to over-ripe, revealing to the point of embarrassment. Strauss the Pompous might be laughable but for his true musical genius, sumptuously recorded here...
...Symphony Orchestra, under guest conductor Andrew Davis, performs two American works and a Strauss tone-poem tonight, tomorrow, Saturday and Tuesday at Symphony Hall. Davis, Music Director of the Toronto Symphony, will conduct the scherzo "Over the Pavements" by Charles Ives, "Before the Butterfly" by Morton Subotnick and "Ein Heldenleben" by Richard Strauss. The concerts are at 8 pm except for tomorrow's, which...
...private, nonprofit club based in Dumas, Texas, it offers members (about 500 so far) five or six recordings annually for a $25-a-year membership fee. Key's first package offering: Brahms' German Requiem, Haydn's Symphonies Nos. 88 and 104, Strauss's Ein Heldenleben, all NBC Symphony broadcasts dating from the late 1930s or early 1940s. This year's batch will include Sibelius' Symphony No. 4, Mendelssohn's "Scotch" Symphony, dating from the same NBC period; and a Rossini-Verdi-Puccini LP emanating from the post-World War II reopening...
Brahms & Dogfish. Indeed, he seems to have been destined for ein Heldenleben. He was born into the Parsi sect, whose members he calls "the Jews of India"; they are descended from a group that fled Persia 1,300 years ago so that they could continue to practice their Zoroastrian faith. The Parsis, 150,000 strong, are business, commercial and social leaders of Bombay, noted for their receptivity to Western culture...