Archive for September 2008

R. Strauss: Four Last Songs 09/21/2008 at 04:00 PM – Peter Norton Symphony Space Featured soloist Twyla Robinson, soprano One of the great showpieces for the soprano voice, Richard Strauss’s Vier Letzte Lieder (Four Last Songs), included personal references to his own life. What was Strauss trying to express in this his final work? What…

Tower, Beethoven, Strauss-09/20/08 09/20/2008 at 08:00 PM – Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts The American Symphony Orchestra celebrates the three-time Grammy Award winning composer and Bard Professor of Music Joan Tower in a program of her work, Strike Zones, alongside Beethoven’s Symphony No. 8, and Strauss’s Death and Transfiguration and Four Last…

Tower, Beethoven, Strauss 09/19/2008 at 08:00 PM – Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts The American Symphony Orchestra celebrates the three-time Grammy Award winning composer and Bard Professor of Music Joan Tower in a program of her work, Strike Zones, alongside Beethoven’s Symphony No. 8, and Strauss’s Death and Transfiguration and Four Last…