The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, November 25th, 2000
Bell, MSO unleash power of Romantics By TOM STRINI Journal Sentinel music critic Saturday, November 25, 2000 The Romantic movement in music took composers further and further from their Classical models and sources. By the turn of the century, time-honored forms and developmental processes were faded ghosts in such works as Sibelius' Violin Concerto and R. Strauss' "Also Sprach Zarathusta." Both works, performed by the Milwaukee Symphony Friday evening, turn not on the clarity of sonata form but on the buildup and release of mighty forces. Mozart and Haydn were architects, and we delight ...
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