Richard Strauss

18 June

Weekly SpinOn: The Age of Enlightenment

What does the Enlightenment sound like? The Enlightenment — or Age of Reason — was a period in the 17th and 18th centuries marked by a profound shift in how people understood the world. Thinkers like Voltaire, Kant, and Hume challenged tradition and authority, promoting reason, science, education, and individual…

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13 June

Weekly SpinOn: Floral Fantasies

Gardens, with their bright colors, soft shade, and still ponds, have long inspired composers. They appear in music either as social spaces, where children play and adults gather, or as idealized visions, more dream than description. It’s not incidental that many cultures imagine paradise as a garden. Eden is described…

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02 May

Weekly SpinOn: Metamorphoses

“In nova fert animus mutatas dicer formas corpora: di, coeptis (nam vos mutastis et illas) adspirate meis primaque ab origine mundi ad mea perpetuum deducite tempora carmen.” “My intention is to tell of bodies changed to different forms; the gods, who made the changes, will inspire my work.” — Ovid,…

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04 July

Spotlight Strauss: “Der Rosenkavalier”

“Der Rosenkavalier” was the first original collaboration between Strauss and the Viennese author Hugo von Hofmannsthal...

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