A music blog written by Rich Brown
Imagine a disease running unchecked through society, infecting everyone without regard to age or social status. A person could be fine in the morning, feverish and bedridden by the afternoon, and dying a painful death in less than 48 hours. Entire families are wiped out, villages are left with few survivors. Each day, in all... Continue Reading →
Decoding the layers of meaning in Also Sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss is no small task. Strauss works with a late Romantic music language that is very rich harmonically, and makes use of many of the innovations of Richard Wagner’s music dramas. Almost immediately after the premiere, Strauss’s tone poem was being broken down in... Continue Reading →
