The San Diego Symphony’s Jacobs Masterworks series officially starts on Saturday, November 4, at 7:30 pm. The venue is The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park. This will be the 14th season I’ve covered for the ...

Conductor Marin Alsop investigates the alluring power behind the grand opening of Also Sprach Zarathustra. Alsop Sprach Zarathustra: Decoding Strauss' Tone Poem Alsop Sprach Zarathustra: Decoding ...

On the surface anyway, Nietzsche’s notion of the Übermensch — the Overman or Superman — can be a little hard to stomach in 2019. These days it takes two to Zarathustra. A superman and a superwoman. By ...

From the CSO’s principal guest conductor come rewarding forays into German and Russian late-Romanticism. Boulez clearly is absorbed in what these various scores can tell us about the decay and death ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. This post has been corrected, as detailed below. Nine months before ...

Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra; Four Last Songs; Empress` Awakening Scene, from Die Frau ohne Schatten (Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner, cond.; Leontyne Price, soprano; New Philharmonia ...

Like his mentor Mariss Jansons, Andris Nelsons has developed a special affinity with the music of Richard Strauss, in which his conducting combines a thrilling impulse with an appreciation of the ...

Richard Strauss' iconic opening to Also Sprach Zarathustra evokes a sense of vastness and power, Marin Alsop says. I can't imagine a more stimulating conversation opener than "God is dead." Indeed, ...

I can't imagine a more stimulating conversation opener than "God is dead." Indeed, this quote by Friedrich Nietzsche sparked heated debate in his time, as it still does today. But how many of us know ...