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Richard Strauss s Don Quixote: a guide to the greatest recordings

Strauss’s portrayal of the legendary knight errant offers brilliant dramatic opportunities for bold cellists, conductors and orchestras. Hugo Shirley surveys a recorded history reaching back nine decades

What Do Confederate Monuments and German Composer Richard Strauss Have in Common?

What Do Confederate Monuments and German Composer Richard Strauss Have in Common? Readers of these occasional pieces will know that in addition to political issues, I also sometimes take a look at cultural questions, especially the role that film, music, and the arts play determining the direction of our civilization. The arts are both the natural product and the creative work of our culture, a kind of essential gloss which more than most anything else expresses our values, our innermost beliefs, and, yes if within the Christian tradition, our devotion and thanks to our Creator. Thus, mankind from the earliest times has demonstrated its innermost convictions and understanding of who it is in the scheme of things and its place in that creation by artistic activity.

Conductor James Levine has died

Photo: Michael Lutch James Levine, music director of New York’s Metropolitan Opera between 1976 and 2016, has died at the age of 77. He had been suffering from Parkinson’s disease. Levine was born in 1943 in Cincinnati, Ohio, and studied at the Juilliard School in New York. An early apprenticeship with Georg Szell at the Cleveland Orchestra was followed in 1971 by his debut at the Met, where in 1976 he was appointed music director, a post he held until his retirement 40 years later. He was also closely associated with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, serving as its music director between 2004 and 2011.  In 2017, it was revealed that Levine was the subject of allegations of sexual misconduct spanning a period of more than 30 years. Although Levine denied these, he was dismissed from his position as the Met’s music director emeritus in 2018. 

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