Strauss News

Strauss's Capriccio Prelude and the original chamber version of Schoenberg's VerklA rte Nacht make obvious concert companion pieces, not only because of their common scoring for string sextet, but also for their shared musical idiom.

Thursday, December 3, 2009 at 12:01 a.m. Steven Schick will lead the La Jolla Symphony & Chorus in Leonard Bernstein's "Mass" in three concerts at UCSD.

With his 55-piece Johann Strauss Orchestra, he will partner with WVIA for a "Celebration of Music Tour." According to Billboard magazine, Rieu was the world's most successful male touring artist for the first half of 2009.

A comedy within an opera, "Die Fledermaus" goes on stage at College of the Desert for six performances starting Dec.

Now here's a different approach to a vexing problem. The Sarasota City Commission is pondering blasting classical music into a city park to drive out the homeless.

SCOTTISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA WIND ENSEMBLE ST CUTHBERT'S PARISH CHURCH, EDINBURGH * * * AS PART of the early evening Cl@six series Unwind, this programme gave the Scottish Chamber Orchestra's excellent wind section a chance to show their form with conductor Joan Enric Lluna.

If you wanted to get a musician to walk through the grim buildings of Auschwitz playing violin music by the German Christian composer Bach in order to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the liberation of this extermination camp for Jews, it would have to be Maxim Vengerov.

Ita s among the most famous horn solos in all of classical music: the irrepressible theme representing Richard Straussa mischievous protagonist in a oeTill Eulenspiegela s Merry Pranks.a A challenge for the most skilled musician, ita s standard audition material for French hornists trying to get into college music programs or symphony orchestras.

The Mariinsky Theatrea TMs forays into German opera have done little to raise its international image, but perhaps it has taken the wrong productions on the road.

Elektra wields the axe that killed her father, Agamenon - and hopes that it will also kill her mother, Klytaemnestra.

Not long ago, Philip Roth gave an interview to the Wall Street Journal , one of several in various publications that occasioned some surprise, since Roth is a notoriously reclusive writer.

Hildegard Behrens 1937-2009 Her Life Affirming Art One of the best memories of my life was when I attended a performance of "Elektra" at the Metropolitan Opera with Hildegard Behrens in the title role.

British director Jonathan Kent has a background in dramatic theater in the U.K. 'Die Frau Ohne Schatten' believed to be Richard Strauss's favorite and most musically challenging opera, is coming to the Russian stage for the first time.

The Estes Park Music Festival will present an exciting new addition to the Music Festival Winter Series featuring Jerilyn Jorgenson, violinist and Cullan Bryant on piano.

A displaced Californian composer writes about music made for the long while & the world around that music.

A startling new CD and an extraordinary old film now on DVD are the objects of scrutiny this month.

In her star-spangled boudoir, with only the figures of a lavish rococo fresco for company, the Marschallin puts her fist through her vanity-table mirror.

What: Altoona Symphony Orchestra's "The Force of Destiny" When: 7:30 p.m. Saturday Where: Mishler Theatre, Altoona Tickets: $30, $20 and $10 at www.altoonasymphony.org or 943-2500 The Altoona Symphony Orchestra will continue to explore the human experience with its second concert of the season, "The Force of Destiny." "It's looking into life from ...

IT MAY only have been ten minutes long. But Sir Peter Maxwell Davies's Overture, St Francis of Assisi a ' newly commissioned by the BBC for Glasgow's Max at 75 celebrations a ' packed as much dynamite into its short duration as Strauss's Don Juan, Beeth oven's Fourth Piano Concerto or Sibelius's Seventh Symphony, all of which featured in Thursday's ...

The British actor, left, and Czech pianist are teaming up for a fresh interpretation of a classical tear-jerker. Celebrated stage and film actor Michael York will team up with award-winning pianist Libor Novacek to present Richard Strauss' composition for solo piano set to Alfred Tennyson's famous epic poem, Enoch Arden.