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 ...

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 ...

From Oct. 24 to 26, the Boston Symphony Orchestra presented a concert featuring British composer Hannah Kendall’s “O flower of fire,” Richard Strauss’s “Also sprach Zarathustra” and Franz Liszt’s ...

In honor of Richard Strauss's 150th birthday, WQXR presents a week of special programming devoted to the German composer's life and works.

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Richard Strauss must have suspected that he would always be mistaken for another composer. How else do you explain “Also Sprach Zarathustra” — the piece that contains his most famous ...

Also Sprach Zarathustra is one of the most famous pieces of classical music repeatedly used in film, with many phenomenal movie scenes getting amazing use out of the piece. Also Sprach Zarathustra is ...

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 ...