?I would like to admit all [Richard] Strauss operas to whichever purgatory punishes triumphant banality,? Igor Stravinsky once said. ?Their musical substance is cheap and poor; it cannot interest a musician today.? But try telling that to the audiences who packed the Kennedy Center last fall to witness soprano Deborah Voigt?s thrilling portrayal of Salome. Or to those at the Met who have recently been treated to productions of ?Capriccio? and ?Ariadne auf Naxos? (?Ariadne makes me want to scream,? Stravinsky said). Or even to ? miraculous as it may seem ? serious music critics. Alex Ross?s magnificent account of 20th-century music, ?The Rest is Noise,? begins not with the titans of musical modernism but with Strauss, that embarrassing anachronism whose music now towers over the previous century and our own.
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