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...wonderful success in Richard Strauss's Die Frau ohne Schatten. I remember exhausting rehearsals with Richard Strauss. He really was a very simple family man, entirely devoted to his temperamental wife-he was really a henpecked husband. I sang a lot of his lieder, and often his wife Pauline would listen. Sometimes Pauline would run to him, throwing her arms around him, saying with big sobs of touch ing sentimentality, "Do you remember, Richard?"-and he would have tears in his eyes, too. They were a strange couple. They fought like mad-needless to say, Pauline always started these...
...Bucknell few offensive opportunities and in goal Graham knocked everything aside. With under two minutes left in the second period Bucknell floated a long arching shot with three seconds left on the shot clock. It sailed over Graham and into the net for the game's initial tally. Rob Strauss evened the score less than a minute later on a breakaway set up by a long Graham pass...
Consider what happens when a modern symphony orchestra and soloist perform a Mozart piano concerto. The string section, often much larger than any Mozart had at his disposal, blasts out its parts on violins and cellos better suited to powerful Strauss tone poems. The wind instruments are louder and more penetrating than classical flutes, oboes and clarinets and more complex in their mechanisms. The piano, a huge concert grand with a booming bass, is worlds removed from its gentler 18th century forerunner. In this welter of sound, inner voices are lost, delicate balances are destroyed. Exciting as the performance might...
Last January Ozick was chosen by the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters to receive one of the Mildred and Harold Strauss Livings, an annual tax-free award of $35,000 for a minimum of five years. "When I first read the letter announcing it," she recalls, "I sat at the kitchen table bawling away and saying, 'I can't accept this.' My husband said: 'Are you mad?' It went on that way for more than a month. I wallowed in guilt. I thought: How did this happen to me? What about everybody...
Indeed, it is Western, not traditional music, that has become the Japanese lingua franca. On television, the strains of Voi che sapete from The Marriage of Figaro plug Suntory whisky, and a Strauss waltz is used as a background for a refrigerator-deodorizer ad. At a children's concert by the New Japan Philharmonic recently, more than 2,000 grade schoolers in the audience rose at the conductor's behest and, in two-part harmony, sang the Ode to Joy from Beethoven's Ninth...