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Times's Echo Live: An Exploration of Music, War and Memoery, Part 2
Words: By his final decades Richard Strauss saw himself, not without reason, as the last mountain in the vast mountain range of German music stretching back to Bach. When Hitler came to power, Strauss chose to remain in the country and forge a partnership of opportunity with the Nazi party, until falling from its official graces in 1935. Our second program traces Strauss's morally fraught wartime journey and plumbs the mysterious depths of his extraordinary musical memorial, "Metamorphosen,” a response to the tragic collapse of German music by a composer who was both its final representative and an intimate witness to its downfall.
Music: Strauss, Metamorphosen, to be heard in a new arrangement for string sextet by Nicholas Kitchen.
Performed by
Nicholas Kitchen, violin
Kristopher Tong, violin
Nicholas Cords, viola
Luther Warren, viola
Leland Ko, cello
Yeesun Kim, cello
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