Twenty-nine years have passed since Richard Strauss’s Salome first shed her veils for Herod, shrieked her demands for the head of John the Baptist, groveled before it, kissed its cold lips. Scene was ...

On Sunday, Nov. 19, the Elgin Symphony Orchestra will present a program featuring its woodwind section. Pieces featured in this intimate performance will include French composer Maurice Ravel's ...

In “Morgen!,” written by Richard Strauss in 1894, solo violin rises from a bed of strings in a tender duet with harp. When the vocalist opens with the optimistic line “And tomorrow, the sun will shine ...

The Boston Philharmonic Orchestra — under the baton of its founder and conductor Benjamin Zander — presented a compelling concert at Symphony Hall on Feb. 16. The program featured Richard Strauss’ ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra has welcomed its next music director. Conductor Jun Märkl was formally introduced as the next director during a news conference Tuesday in the ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Richard Strauss must have suspected that he would always be mistaken for another composer. How else do you explain “Also Sprach Zarathustra” — the piece that contains his most famous ...

In 1948, German composer Richard Strauss set Hermann Hesse's beautiful poem "September" to music, but he didn't live to hear it on stage. It's part of a set now known as Four Last Songs, a song cycle ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Leon Botstein’s American Symphony Orchestra dusts off “Guntram,” and singers unveil the beauties and flaws of a 19th-century epic fail. By Corinna da ...

Richard Strauss, of Nazi Germany, whose only rival to the title of greatest living composer is Jean Sibelius, of Nazi-dominated Finland, has dared to defy the Führer. The story came out last week in ...

(4) Lieder, Movements: No. 3, Heimliche Aufforderung (wds. J H Mackay) Hedwig Fassbender, Mezzo soprano Hilko Dumno, Piano Richard Strauss, Composer (2) Lieder, Movements: O wärst du mein Richard ...