Word: strauss
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...celebrate conductor Seiji Ozawa's 25th Anniversary. Roberta Flack hosted the event, with Joseph Lin '00 joining them as a featured soloist for the first movement of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in D, Opus 35. The grand affair, whose ambitious program featured famed excerpts from the likes of Strauss, Beethoven and Gershwin, kicked off a new BSO initiative called "Symphony in the City" the aim of which is to offer free music to the city neighborhoods of Boston...
...young Ludwig grew up in a hothouse atmosphere of high culture and privilege. Brahms and Mahler were frequent visitors to the palatial family home, and Ludwig's brother Paul, a concert pianist who lost an arm in World War I, commissioned works for the left hand by Richard Strauss, Ravel and Prokofiev. It was during the war that Ludwig, a volunteer in the Austrian artillery, completed the Tractatus shortly before he was captured and taken prisoner. Always an ascetic, he gave away his inheritance, relying on the generosity of his Cambridge champions, Russell and John Maynard Keynes, to secure academic...
Last week she finally agreed to talk to him on the record, the only print interview she has given. They met for more than two hours Friday at the Manhattan penthouse of her mother Marcia Lewis and stepfather Peter Strauss. It followed a few days of negotiations with independent counsel Kenneth Starr's office, because her immunity agreement requires her to get permission before talking to the press. The chief restriction placed on her was that she was not supposed to talk about the prosecutor's treatment of her, which is the subject of an investigation. Duffy says, "The good...
Paul Weyrich, an influential molder of social-conservative opinion, wrote his followers that the public's disinclination to throw Bill Clinton out of office reflected "the collapse of the culture." At first I thought he was being a bit harsh. Then Levi Strauss announced that it's laying off a good chunk of its work force, partly because so many Americans have abandoned authentic blue jeans for designer jeans. That gave me a little more appreciation of what Weyrich was getting at. All of us with an interest in preserving Western civilization have our own notion of what just might...
...Strauss' early masterpiece, finished by the time he was 25, was written under the spell of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, and takes its cues from the tristesse (and orchestrational largesse) of that monster. In the version Strauss sought to depict, it is not a statue-come-to protagonist's own self loathing that brings on the brimstone. You can look forward to otherworldly brass writing and overwrought, saturated textures. For a first course, it is heavy fare...