The San Diego Symphony’s Jacobs Masterworks series officially starts on Saturday, November 4, at 7:30 pm. The venue is The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park. This will be the 14th season I’ve covered for 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 ...

Timpanist Ryan DiLisi and Scottish mezzo soprano Karen Cargill will be featured at the May 22 and 24 concerts.

Richard Strauss' iconic opening to Also Sprach Zarathustra evokes a sense of vastness and power, Marin Alsop says. I can't imagine a more stimulating conversation opener than "God is dead." Indeed, ...

Don Juan was the work that Andris Nelsons chose as his calling card in 2008 when he was first presented as the CBSO's next music director, and Richard Strauss's music has been a staple of his ...

For all the bombast of its famous opening, Richard Strauss’ “Also Sprach Zarathustra” (Thus Spake Zarathustra), inspired by Friedrich Nietzsche’s famous philosophical overview of the human race, is ...

Conductor Marin Alsop investigates the alluring power behind the grand opening of Also Sprach Zarathustra. Alsop Sprach Zarathustra: Decoding Strauss' Tone Poem Alsop Sprach Zarathustra: Decoding ...

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