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 ...

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"I would like to admit all [Richard] Strauss operas to whichever purgatory punishes triumphant banality," Igor Stravinsky once said. "Their musical substance is cheap and poor; it cannot interest a ...

Marking the 100th anniversary of An Alpine Symphony, take a guided tour through Strauss' evocative music with conductor Semyon Bychkov and author... Richard Strauss' Musical Mountain Climb Harrowing ...

“Clue, The Musical” opens this weekend at Strauss Theatre Center and promises an evening of intrigue, laughter and a few surprises. Under the direction of Brandi Albritton, the cast is, Walter Allen ...

While Congress was having its holiday rest last week. Parliament in musical Austria busied itself with musical copyrights, particularly as they affected the waltzes of the late Johann Strauss. Two ...

The music of Mozart and Strauss is able to lower blood lipid concentrations and the heart rate. This is the result of a study of the effect of different musical genres on the cardiovascular system.

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An Alpine Symphony, by Richard Strauss, depicts a dawn to dusk climb up a mountain. We've rounded up two Alpine Symphony experts to be our trail guides up the mountain. Semyon Bychkov is conducting ...