The season closes with two genuine masterpieces – Mozart’s sprightly Symphony No. 40 in G minor, a work deeply admired by Richard Strauss, and Strauss’ monumental An Alpine Symphony, a composition of ...

The Curtis Symphony Orchestra makes a dynamic return to the stage for the first time since February 2020 with Strings, Symphonies, and Strauss, led by Peter Oundjian, conductor emeritus of the Toronto ...

Strauss’ symphony is a crash course in great composers, taking inspiration from Beethoven, Brahms, and a handful of others. The brooding opening Allegro and the sprightly Scherzo that follows reflect ...

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’ ...

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 ...

Richard Strauss’s 1898 tone poem "Ein Heldenleben," or “A Hero’s Life,” is a great example of what a pity it is that Strauss is so seldom performed by American orchestras, and it made for a refreshing ...

When it comes to musical humor, one thing’s for sure: To be funny in sound is not like a joke in language whose weird setup (a priest, a lawyer, and a jackass walk into a bar) is upended by a ...

Courtesy of the Houston Symphony, Black Friday brought a sumptuous post-Thanksgiving banquet of Richard Strauss, the Bavarian composer and conductor Stanley Kubrick and Elvis turned to when they ...