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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
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Reply-To: robison@eosp1.UUCP (Tobias D. Robison)
Organization: Exxon Office Systems, Princeton
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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!)
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