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In Reply to: RE: Did Richard Strauss Really Write the Opening of Also Sprach Zarathustra? posted by jdaniel@jps.net on March 17, 2015 at 22:00:46
After the opening you have expectations, and boy they are not worth a damn. Wha a total letdown.
dee
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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
quote by Kurt Vonnegut
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I used to have the same opinion, but now I love the whole work, and it's one of my favorite Strauss works. It was the Mehta recording on LP that finally changed my mind.
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He wrote much better music, i think Don Quixote is his best work, and almost everything else is better than the totality of Also Spracht..with the exception of the opening, How did that happen? WTF knows, but it is good that it happened, Kubrick would have been still searching for something bombastic :)...
dee
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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
quote by Kurt Vonnegut
It's puzzling to me for the opposite reason - I love ASZ (the whole thing), but have never found the secret to Don Quixote - although I do admit that (as always with Strauss) DQ is very clever in places (love those bleating sheep!). Sometimes, I think Strauss was too clever for his own good however. ;-)
My least favorite Strauss symphonic poem is Heldenleben: now THERE's a piece that takes a nose dive after its arresting opening (although I must admit that the very end is also compelling).
he was his main audience :)..
dee
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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
quote by Kurt Vonnegut
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