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...Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s “Ariadne auf Naxos” ran at the Boston Lyric Opera (BLO) from March 12-23 in its North American premiere. The production was worth shipping across the Atlantic. Funny and well-acted, it wryly reimagines Strauss??s and Hofmannsthal’s dialogue between the comic and the serious as a commentary on the state of contemporary opera—simultaneously providing an impressive showcase for virtuoso singing...
...original opera into a sort of rock band, dressed up in leather, tour T-shirts, and faded jeans. The Composer and his cadre become manifestations of the typical “classical establishment”: all ties, fine clothing and preening. They stick faithfully to Strauss??s score—no insertions of guitars or anything like that—but the context makes it clear that they’re talking less about the relationship between the comic and the serious and more about that between the “popular?...
Such self-consciousness is on clearest display in Lévi-Strauss?? lovely travelogue-cum-memoir Tristes Tropiques. Indeed, Lévi-Strauss?? own work can be divided into two categories: Tristes Tropiques, and everything else. Cherished as a formative influence by many established anthropologists, the slim volume sets down in pearlescent prose all the bittersweet joys of the profession, absent in Lévi-Strauss?? more detached volumes of scholarship. This elegiac tone evolved into outright pessimism as he grew older; in one of his last interviews he flatly states that...
...Richard J. Zeckhauser ’62, Strauss?? undergraduate thesis adviser and a professor at Kennedy School of Government, called his former student a “successful Don Quixote...
...Strauss?? civic-mindedness extended to his criticism of what he saw as Harvard’s “money culture.” He decried tuition hikes at universities and the multimillion-dollar salaries of Harvard’s endowment managers, writing four op-eds on the topic in The Crimson over the past four years...