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...Arts Center, played by the Philadelphia Orchestra (during its Beethoven festival); at Tanglewood, the Boston Symphony's Berkshire retreat (during an all-Beethoven orchestral weekend); and at the Hollywood Bowl (during the Los Angeles Philharmonic's Beethoven festival). Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston and Los Angeles are each playing Strauss's Also Sprach Zarathustra and Stravinsky's The Firebird this summer. Rachmaninoff's Third Piano Concerto? The Cleveland Orchestra is serving it up, and so are the Chicago Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. The beat goes...
...occasionally recognized, another category is nearly always overlooked: lesser-known works from the past. Why should concertgoers be force-fed a steady diet of chestnuts when, with a little brio and imagination, music directors could offer them something fresher and equally palatable? Instead of Zarathustra, for example, why not Strauss's eloquent valedictory, the Metamorphosen for 23 solo strings? Instead of yet another oft-encountered romantic symphony, how about Austrian Composer Franz Schmidt's dark, troubled Fourth Symphony? Instead of one more go at Dvořák's "New World" Symphony, why not his exhilarating tone...
...Egon Strauss...
Franz Josef Strauss, 66, Minister-President,of the West German state of Bavaria, Finance Minister of West Germany from 1966 to 1969 and conservative candidate who lost to Chancellor Helmut Schmidt...
...suggest that Sissela Bok's excellent book be made required reading in Cambridge for certain selection members of the Harvard Athletic Department ad--why not?--even for G. Robert Strauss. Andy Noel Cornell Wrestling Coach