Word: symphonia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Strauss continued to startle and scandalize staid concert audiences in more subtle ways. He flouted time-honored symphonic proprieties by writing naturalistic musical descriptions of mundane scenes and events. In his symphonic poem, Don Quixote, he made the brass instruments of the orchestra bleat like sheep. In his later Symphonia Domestica, an enormous orchestra of 108 players was set to work imitating the sound of a baby in a bathtub. He boasted that he could depict anything in music recognizably, even a glass of water. Critics deplored his vulgarity, but they had to admit that Composer Strauss...
...conductor to the Boston Symphony during the next two weeks. His program for Friday and Saturday as well as Monday evening consists of Beethoven's "Overture to Leonore No. 2," "Overture for a Don Quixote" by Jean Rivier, Debussy's three symphonic sketches "La Mer", and Strauss's "Symphonia Domestica". Rivier is a modern French composer whose works have received considerable although not unusual praise in Paris during the past eight or ten years. His "Overture for a Don Quixote" is one of his latest endeavors...