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Article: Boehm: Nothing but the Best; The Conductor Outshines an All-Star Cast on Strauss Operas
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- The Washington Post
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- February 12, 1995
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Karl Boehm was an outstanding conductor of opera -- especially of
works by Richard Strauss and Mozart. Strauss and Boehm became close
friends in the last 15 years of the composer's life. They often
worked together, and Boehm liked to say that he learned more about
music from Strauss than from anyone else -- not only about Strauss's
own music, but about the whole great Central European tradition, the
art of conducting and the special demands of theatrical production.
He adopted the tempos Strauss used as a conductor for Mozart and
Beethoven, and he had the composer's detailed instructions for
Strauss's own works, which he conducted with intense dedication.
This partly explains why the series ...