Associate Professor and Chair of the Music Performance department at Azusa Pacific University, Christopher Russell discusses three pieces on life, death, and love, all inspired by Romantic poetry.

This talk was given at the first performance of Dudamel Conducts Strauss at Walt Disney Concert Hall.

Pieces discussed:

SCHOENBERG Transfigured Night

STRAUSS Four Last Songs

STRAUSS Death and Transfiguration

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