Word: sprach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Strauss has always dwelt on the dramatic and realistic effects of his music. Wagnerians usually love it but followers of Schumann and Brahms are likely to find it crude and vulgar-"pleasure gas," a Viennese critic once called it. His mammoth tone poems-Till Eulenspiegel, Ein Heldenleben and Also sprach Zarathustra-show him to be a peerless master of orchestral effect and a wizardly painter of tone color. But Strauss was the last man in a 400-year-old tradition of tonality, and it was his misfortune to work alongside the atonalists without sharing any of their discoveries. Halfway into...
...that the Westphalian Peace Treaty ended the Thirty Years' War, Der Friedenstag was denounced at its 1938 premiere as Strauss's surrender to Naziism. More than two dec ades later, its political message is blurred, and the music's obligation to earlier Strauss works, notably Also Sprach Zarathustra and Don Juan, still cripples its effectiveness. Nonetheless, Der Friedenstag contains evidence of Strauss's power, even...
morrow evening at 8:30 the program will include Brahms' Symphony No. 2 and Strauss' Also Sprach Zarathustra. The guest conductor for both concerts will be Lorin Maazel...