Richard Strauss archive
Watch How Slow Can You Go?
August 20, 2012 – It's good to take it easy during these dog days of summer. But how slow is too slow?
Watch Tracing The Trail Of Musical Fathers
June 15, 2012 – Commentator Miles Hoffman introduces a few famous dads whose children became master musicians.
Read Talk Like An Opera Geek: Wading Into The 20th Century
April 18, 2012 – Opera reinvents itself in the hands of innovative composers facing a new century.
Read Who Says Classical Music Can't Be Sexy?
February 10, 2012 – Just in time for Valentine's Day, classics that depict a lot more than cuddling.
Listen Alsop Sprach Zarathustra: Decoding Strauss' Tone Poem
January 14, 2012 – Marin Alsop investigates the alluring power behind the grand opening of Also Sprach Zarathustra.
Read Filibustering The Philharmonic
December 9, 2011 – Fridays are funnier with a classical cartoon at noon, from Deceptive Cadence.
Watch Karita Mattila In Recital At Carnegie Hall WQXR
December 9, 2011 – A soprano who holds nothing back in an intimate program of French, Viennese and Finnish songs. WQXR
Watch The Bloodiest Opera Ever? Maybe Strauss' 'Elektra' WDAV
October 28, 2011 – A gruesome tale of one very dysfunctional family, courtesy of Richard Strauss. WDAV
Watch A Song That Says Fall: Richard Strauss' 'September'
September 22, 2011 – Some music can trigger a sense of fall. Watch Jessye Norman sing one of Strauss' autumnal treasures.
Read 120 Years At Carnegie Hall
May 5, 2011 – From Tchaikovsky to Terry Riley: 120 years of artists at the world's most famous venue.
Watch Guilty Pleasures: Nicholas McGegan's Symphonic Sweet Tooth
March 16, 2011 – Conductor Nicholas McGegan gets nostalgic when he hears the music of any composer named Strauss.
Read Bone-Chillers and Blood-Curdlers Puzzler
October 28, 2010 – Test your knowledge of creepy classics by taking this interactive Halloween quiz. If you dare.
Watch Unparalleled Dysfunction: Strauss' 'Elektra'
October 22, 2010 – Strauss's sumptuous one-act opera tells the lurid story of a young woman and her homicidal family.
Listen Bach, Ballet And 1-Bit Symphonies: New Classical CDs
August 14, 2010 – NPR Music's Tom Huizenga and host Guy Raz spin an eclectic assortment of new music.
Listen The Autumnal Glow Of Strauss' Four Last Songs
September 22, 2009 – Hear the extraordinary opulence soprano Jessye Norman brings to Strauss' final songs.