Word: symphoniae
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...second half of the performance was entirely devoted to Richard Strauss's Symphonia Domestica. When the piece was first performed Strauss was criticized for his tastelessness to compose a symphony about the banal day of a domestic household. The program notes state that a critic even went so far as to call it a "joke in bad taste." Strauss's reply was "I did not mean to make fun. What can be more serious a matter than married life?" Strauss's domestic life is anything but dull. In the span of 24 hours the composer had to deal with...
...glare, muffling his frequent shy smiles. Yet Janos Kadar still displays the same unexpected charm and cool canniness that have helped make the onetime typewriter mechanic the boldest and most beloved leader in Eastern Europe. Wearing a tailored gray suit and a wine-red silk tie, Kadar chain-smoked Symphonia cigarettes while talking for two hours with a group of TIME visitors in his office in Budapest's Central Committee headquarters. Any initial reserve that the General Secretary displayed quickly vanished. Present at Kadar's first interview with a U.S. publication in two decades were TIME Managing Editor Jason McManus...
JORDAN HALL. Bejamin Zander conducting the Boston Civic Symphony. Dvorak: Symphony No. 6, and Vorisek: Symphonia in D Major. Tickets...
JORDAN HALL. Benjamin Zander conducting the Boston Civic Symphony. Dvorak Symphony No. 6, and Vorisek, Symphonia in D Major. Tickets...
...Wagner had to be escaped. The entire community of Europe agonied in the punishing ascendency of the magnificent nineteenth century figures: Beethoven, Wagner, Brahms, Metternich, Bismarck, Darwin. Music was caught in a vortex of gigantic, lavish attempts at the final romantic masterpiece. Mahler's Eighth Symphony, Richard Strauss's Symphonia Domestica and Alpine Symphony, Schoenberg's Pelleas and Melisande and Gurre-Lieder, Scriabin's Poem of Ecstasy were all part of an increasingly grotesque effort to revitalize the nineteenth century musical syntax. Munificently colored cathedrals were raised upon the collapsing sands of lurid fin-de-siecle romanticism. Self-paralysis, excruciating...