It was said of the legendary dance team Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, that one of the reasons their performances were so magical was that she gave him sex appeal and he gave her class. That could also be a crude, but rather accurate, description of the Read more
INTERMEZZO – Richard Strauss
Intermezzo is based on an actual — and very upsetting — incident in Richard Strauss’s life. In 1903 an Italian opera company was appearing at Berlin’s Kroll Theater. One night after a performance the conductor, Josef Stransky, the star tenor, Emilio De Marchi, (who had been Puccini’s first Cavaradossi in Tosca just three years earlier), and his manager, an American named Edgar Strakosch, went to the bar at the Read more
