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...RICHARD STRAUSS: ARIADNE AUF NAXOS (DG). Strauss's glowing score, brightened by Kathleen Battle's sparkling Zerbinetta and James Levine's energetic baton...
...never seen a dinner take off like this one," marveled Graber. "I was stunned by how much that evening moved me," said former Democratic Party Chairman Robert Strauss, who sat across from Nancy and Gorbachev. "I've only felt it once before, at the dinner for Sadat and Begin...
...sense of destiny and the Strolling Strings soften the crusts of Gorbachev and his crew of Soviets who mingled below the portrait of Abraham Lincoln? At the end, when Pianist Van Cliburn played Moscow Nights, Strauss thought he saw a bit of mist in the eyes of the Gorbachevs as they sang along. It was surely the most startling music in the East Room since Harry Truman played The Black Hawk Waltz...
Adams, who a decade ago was writing minimalist essays in broken chords and chugging rhythms, has evolved a more flexible, conventional tonal language, fleshed out with references to past masters (Debussy, Beethoven, Richard Strauss) and even Glenn Miller, as the dramatic situation demands. There has always been a theatricality about Adams' music -- the 1981 Harmonium was a vivid choral setting of poetry by John Donne and Emily Dickinson -- and in Nixon its dramatic qualities have flowered. The figures are sharply characterized: Nixon (James Maddalena), for example, is a gruff baritone whose music is often stiff and halting, while Chairman...
Most slavish praise. Babbitt's hosannas to Democratic Patriarch Robert Strauss, who joined Buckley in the questioning. Babbitt twice promised Strauss a Cabinet post in his Administration...