Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site eosp1.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!princeton!eosp1!robison From: robison@eosp1.UUCP (Tobias D. Robison) Newsgroups: net.music.classical Subject: Is Richard Strauss Empty? Message-ID: <1229@eosp1.UUCP> Date: Mon, 5-Nov-84 13:07:07 EST Article-I.D.: eosp1.1229 Posted: Mon Nov 5 13:07:07 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 6-Nov-84 06:58:34 EST References: <13192@mgweed.UUCP> <242@olivej.UUCP> Reply-To: robison@eosp1.UUCP (Tobias D. Robison) Organization: Exxon Office Systems, Princeton Lines: 14 Summary: Part of the trouble with R. Strauss is that he is getting over-interpreted. I listened to ana analysis of a new Rosenkavalier recording last night. The point of the commentators was that Strauss used to conduct his own performances so simply that the opera sounded startlingly like Mozart. People have lost the simplicity of his music in trying to make it more than it is, and in doing so they have made it less, by losing the beautiful construction that allowed his music to sound clear and simple. - Toby Robison (not Robinson!) allegra!eosp1!robison or: decvax!ittvax!eosp1!robison or (emergency): princeton!eosp1!robison