San Diego Symphony Music Director and conductor Rafael Payare ... Benjamin Jabar showed why he can win such auditions. Not that Strauss neglects the orchestra’s other musicians.

In an impressive Philharmonic debut, the German conductor Kevin John Edusei presented a brilliant calling card in Samy Moussa ...

Richard’s formal academic schooling ran parallel to his ... Wagner’s music dramas and Liszt’s symphonic tone-poems were to be his models. From that point on, all Strauss’s music would have a literary ...

Bohmerl'' was Strauss's endearing diminutive for the conductor who did most to propagate the composer's music during his lifetime and thereafter. If Bohm wasn't conducting the premiere of a work in ...

No prizes for guessing the real hero of Richard Strauss’s Ein Heldenleben ... in Haydn’s Nelson Mass: sacred music written in a time of war, with all the power and drama of a great opera.