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	Richard Strauss - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1874 Strauss heard his first Wagner operas, Lohengrin, Tannhäuser and Siegfried; the influence of Wagner's music on Strauss's style was to be profound, but at first his father forbade him to study it: it was not until the age of 16 that he was able to obtain a score of Tristan und Isolde.
		It was Ritter who persuaded Strauss to abandon the conservative style of his youth, and begin writing tone poems; he also introduced Strauss to the essays of Richard Wagner and the writings of Schopenhauer.
		Strauss admitted that the duet concertino had an extra-musical "plot", in which the clarinet represented a princess and the bassoon a bear; when the two dance together, the bear transforms into a prince.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Richard_Strauss (1673 words)

	Leo Strauss - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Strauss subsequently enrolled in the University of Hamburg, where he received his doctorate in 1921 with a thesis entitled "On Epistemology in the Philosophical Doctrine of F. Jacobi," which was supervised by Ernst Cassirer.
		Strauss taught that liberalism, strictly speaking, contained within it an intrinsic tendency towards relativism, which in turn led to a sort of nihilism — a kind of decadent, value-free aimlessness, and hedonism which he believed he saw permeating through the fabric of contemporary American society.
		Strauss noted that thinkers of the first rank, going back to Plato, had raised the problem of whether good and effective politicians could be completely truthful and still achieve the necessary ends of their society.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Leo_Strauss (3024 words)

	What was Leo Strauss up to?
		Strauss was born in Germany in 1899 and settled in the United States in the late 1930s.
		Strauss claimed that he had rediscovered "a forgotten kind of writing," and that for almost two centuries the proper manner of reading the greatest works of the past had apparently disappeared.
		Strauss, chiefly by way of his students, is in large part responsible for making the thought and principles of America's founders a source of political knowledge and appeal, and for making political excellence more broadly a subject of appreciation and study.
	home.cfl.rr.com /mpresley1/leo_strauss.html (4978 words)

	Nicholas Xenos - Leo Strauss and the Rhetoric of the War on Terror -- Logos: Spring 2004
		Strauss wrote to Löwith in May 1933, five months after Hitler’s appointment as Chancellor and a month after implementation of the first anti-Jewish legislation, that “Just because Germany has turned to the right and has expelled us,” meaning Jews, “it simply does not follow that the principles of the right are therefore to be rejected.
		Strauss had been working on Maimonides and he came to the conclusion that in order to understand Maimonides he had to understand the writers to whom Maimonides was relating and that led Strauss to Alfarabi, the medieval Islamic philosopher.
		Strauss himself adopted a system of using a great many interrelated footnotes and references and of quoting people whose position he would not overtly take while pointing to the fact that that was his position by other clues in the text, among other techniques.
	www.logosjournal.com /xenos.htm (6490 words)

	FrontPage magazine.com :: Leo Strauss, Conservative Mastermind by Robert Locke
		Strauss contends that the modern view of politics is artificial and that the ancient one is direct and honest about the experience of political things.
		Strauss shockingly admits, contrary to generations of liberal professors who have taught him as a martyr to the First Amendment, that the prosecution of Socrates was not entirely without point.
		As Strauss says, "just because we are friends of liberal democracy does not entitle us to be flatterers of liberal democracy." In his public utterances on contemporary politics he was a conventional conservative patriot who backed the United States against Nazi Germany in WWII and Soviet Russia in the Cold War.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=1233 (2934 words)

	Asia Times
		In his article, Hersh wrote that Strauss believed the world to be a place where "isolated liberal democracies live in constant danger from hostile elements abroad", and where policy advisers may have to deceive their own publics and even their rulers in order to protect their countries.
		"Strauss was neither a liberal nor a democrat," she said in a telephone interview from her office at the University of Calgary in Canada.
		For Strauss, "religion is the glue that holds society together", said Drury, who added that Irving Kristol, among other neoconservatives, has argued that separating church and state was the biggest mistake made by the founders of the US republic.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Middle_East/EE09Ak01.html (988 words)

	Richard Strauss
		Richard Strauss was the most clearly programmatic composer of the nineteenth century, and he used the freedoms of musical pictorialism to create sounds that bring us into the twentieth century.
		Strauss was composing by the age of six, having received basic instruction from his father, a virtuoso horn player.
		Strauss' first symphony premiered when he was seventeen, his second (in New York) when he was twenty.
	www.wwnorton.com /classical/composers/strauss.htm (487 words)

	Franz Strauss (1822-1905) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		While this was a very productive period for him as a composer and performer, it was a tragic period of his life; a 10-month-old son died of tuberculosis, and then cholera took the lives of his wife and young daughter, leaving him a widower at the age of thirty-two.
		A story recalled by Richard Strauss relates that "Wagner once went past the horn player, who was sitting in his place in moody silence, and said, 'Always gloomy, these horn players,' whereupon my father replied 'We have good reason to be.'" Another story relates a difficult situation between Franz Strauss and Bülow.
		Strauss picked up his horn, went to the Intendant, and asked for his pension "at the orders of Herr von Bülow." As he was indispensable, [Intendant Karl von] Perfall had to use all his diplomacy to smooth the trouble out.
	www.hornsociety.org /RESOURCES/famous/F-Strauss.html (544 words)

	Johann Strauss, Jr. Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		After the carnival 1853, Strauss became extremely ill, and was not able to perform for half a year.
		Strauss was profoundly touched by the homage he received.
		It was in the process of writing a ballet (Aschenbroedel) that he was taken ill with a respiratory ailment, developed pnumonia and died on June 3, 1899 at the age of 73 in the arms of his devoted wife, Adele.
	www.straussfestival.com /bio.html (1184 words)

	Richard Strauss
		Strauss followed it with Ariadne auf Naxos, at first linked with a Moliere play, later revised as prologue (behind the scenes at a private theatre) and opera, mixing commedia dell'arte and classical tragedy to a delicate, chamber orchestral accompaniment.
		Of his remaining operas, Capriccio (1942), a 'conversation-piece' in a single act set in the 18th century and dealing with the amorous and artistic rivalries of a poet and a musician, is the most successful, with its witty, graceful, serene score.
		When Germany was defeated, and her opera houses destroyed, Strauss wrote an intense lament, Metamorphosen, for 23 solo strings; this is one of several products of a golden 'Indian summer', which include an oboe concerto and the Four Last Songs, works in a ripe, mellow idiom, executed with a grace worthy of his beloved Mozart.
	w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de /cmp/strauss_r.html (761 words)

	Leo Strauss and the Straussians (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Until quite recently, Leo Strauss and his disciples were considered (insofar as anyone took any notice of them) just a particular variety of conservative intellectuals, with a special interest in political philosophy and American constitutional history.
		The teaching of Leo Strauss is "political philosophy" in a very special sense: his primary, if not exclusive, concern is the relation of philosophy (and the philosophers themselves) to society as a whole.
		Strauss puts his students to such a mental effort to try to understand him that they are too exhausted to make the mental effort to criticize him.
	home.earthlink.net /~karljahn/Strauss.htm (2131 words)

	Leo Strauss - SourceWatch
		Leo Strauss, a "refugee from Nazi Germany who arrived in the United States in 1937, was trained in the history of political philosophy, and became one of the foremost conservative émigré scholars." He taught at the University of Chicago.
		For Strauss, "religion is the glue that holds society together", said Drury, who added that Irving Kristol, among other neo-conservatives, has argued that separating church and state was the biggest mistake made by the founders of the U.S. republic.
		Leo Strauss was a brilliant German Jew who after studying in Europe on a fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation, became a highly paid professor at the University of Chicago.
	www.sourcewatch.org /wiki.phtml?title=Leo_Strauss (2276 words)

	Leo Strauss
		Strauss was very impressed by Heidegger’s thoroughness and intensiveness of his interpretations of philosophic texts, (in particular, on one occasion, when he understood something of what Heidegger meant, his interpretation of the beginning of Aristotle’s Metaphysics).
		Strauss could exhibit was, I suspect, inherited, for another story he liked to tell was of a prank played by his father upon a travelling business man who used to stop in their German town.
		Strauss and Green, 1997, page 31 “I was myself (as you might have guessed) a political Zionist in my youth, and was a member of a Zionist student organisation.
	members.tripod.com /Cato1/strauss-bio.htm (7036 words)

	Classical Net - Basic Repertoire List - Richard Strauss
		Strauss began to compose at an early age in an idiom which owed much to Robert Schumann.
		During this period as well, Strauss became an official of the Third Reich, although his job was largely ceremonial, and he considered most of the powerful Nazis Philistines and barbarians.
		Strauss became a whipping-boy for modernist critics, who regarded him as a moss-back and failed to discern how he led to modernism.
	www.classical.net /music/comp.lst/straussr.html (985 words)

	Whiskey Bar: The Grand Delusion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		What’s more, Strauss not only thought this — he believed the ancient philosophers agreed with him, which is why their texts shouldn’t be read literally — at least not by the privileged elite.
		What is clear is that Strauss took great pains to recruit disciples who could transmit his ideas to future generations of impressionable young philosophers.
		Kendall was William F. Buckley Jr.’s mentor at Yale; Irving Kristol has cited Strauss as a primary influence; Newt Gingrich cribbed heavily from Straussian theory (and tactics) in drafting the Contract On America.
	billmon.org /archives/001854.html (2659 words)

	Franz Strauss
		Due to his upright character, Strauss found the consent of father Pschorr, and their wedding was celebrated August 29, 1863 at the Munich cathedral.
		Strauss was one of the very first horn players who used nearly exclusively the single B-flat horn.
		Strauss did also the premiere of Tristan and Isolde; a golden leaf of the Lorbeer-Kranz given to Wagner, is attached to the last page of the original first horn part.
	www.hornplayer.net /archive/a62.html (2410 words)

	The Claremont Institute: Leo Strauss, the Bible, and Political Philosophy
		That article was the revised text of a lecture I had given at the New School for Social Research earlier in 1987, as part of a symposium — sponsored by the School — on the contributions of foreign born scholars to the understanding of the American Constitution, whose bicentennial was being celebrated.
		As we cannot too often repeat, Strauss never forgot the claims of revelation, no less than of reason, to be the "high." But a judgment with respect to these claims was ultimately dependent upon speculative reason: which he did not think could in fact render any final decision.
		Strauss thought that Machiavelli's turning away from moral virtue, as a necessary ingredient of human well-being, was mistaken.
	www.claremont.org /writings/980213jaffa.html (5340 words)

	BBC SPORT \| Cricket \| England \| New dad Strauss rejoins England
		Andrew Strauss is to return to Pakistan after witnessing the birth of his son, Samuel David, on Sunday night.
		Strauss, who missed the third Test defeat in Lahore after travelling home, is expected to arrive back in the subcontinent on Tuesday lunchtime.
		Strauss had always made it known he wanted to be with his wife Ruth in London.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/hi/cricket/england/4390012.stm (179 words)

	AlterNet: Leo Strauss' Philosophy of Deception
		Strauss taught at several major universities, including Wolfowitz and Shulsky's alma mater, the University of Chicago, before his death in 1973.
		Strauss' philosophy is hardly incidental to the strategy and mindset adopted by these men – as is obvious in Shulsky's 1999 essay titled "Leo Strauss and the World of Intelligence (By Which We Do Not Mean Nous)" (in Greek philosophy the term nous denotes the highest form of rationality).
		Robert Locke, another Strauss analyst says,"The people are told what they need to know and no more." While the elite few are capable of absorbing the absence of any moral truth, Strauss thought, the masses could not cope.
	www.alternet.org /story/15935 (1157 words)

	Levi Strauss & Co. \| Founder Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Levi Strauss, the inventor of the quintessential American garment - the blue jean - was born in Buttenheim, Bavaria on February 26, 1829 to Hirsch Strauss and his second wife, Rebecca Haas Strauss.
		In 1863 the business relocated to 315 and 317 Sacramento Street, and in 1863 the company was renamed “Levi Strauss and Co.” Then in 1866 Levi moved the headquarters again, to larger quarters at 14-16 Battery Street, where it remained for the next forty years.
		Strauss, whose splendid endowments to the University of California will be an enduring testimonial of his worth as a liberal, public-minded citizen and whose numberless unostentatious acts of charity in which neither race nor creed were recognized, exemplified his broad and generous love for and sympathy with humanity."
	www.levistrauss.com /about/history/founder.htm (980 words)

	What Hath Strauss Wrought?
		Yet the ideas that the accusations pervert are those of Strauss, and when those ideas are restored to their true shape they can be seen as articulating core neoconservative convictions.
		Strauss was not an elitist--but he was a lover of excellence.
		He believed in the cultivation of the mind, and sought to restore respect for its manifestation in the ambition for honor and nobility in the soul, which he understood to be not only compatible with but essential to democracy.
	weeklystandard.com /Content/Public/Articles/000/000/002/717acusr.asp (387 words)

	The Richard Strauss Page -- Bibliography and Reviews
		With 1999 being the 50th anniversary of the death of Richard Strauss, there is a significant amount of Strauss-related activity in many different segments of the musical world, and publishing is no exception to this trend.
		The book, also titled Richard Strauss (part of the 'Master Musicians Series'), gives a balanced overview of the life of Strauss as well as an outstanding presentation of the progression of his musical development.
		Charles Osborne's The Complete Operas of Richard Strauss is a wonderful one-volume overview of Strauss' operatic output.
	people.unt.edu /~dmeek/rstrauss-bibliography.html (1515 words)

	Strauss (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Strauss was born in Munich on the 11th of June, 1864, the son of Franz Joseph Strauss, principal hornist in the Court Orchestra (Hoforchester) and Josephine Pschorr, whose family were prominent brewers in the Bavarian capital (a city still famous the world over for its beer).
		This lineage provided the young Richard with a background both musically and financially secure and, indeed, he showed great promise from an early age: he started piano at four (he could read musical notes before letters and words) and began composing at the age of six (lieder, piano pieces and orchestral overtures).
		In the Finale, Strauss draws inspiration from Mendelssohn's "Scottish" Symphony and Wagner's "Parsifal" (which he had heard in Bayreuth).
	www.artistled.com /html/CD_Strauss.htm (1290 words)

	What Would Strauss Do?
		Another potential area of common ground between Strauss and the modern neoconservative movement was his interest in the relationship between Judaism and modern liberalism and particularly his endorsement of Zionism.
		Not surprisingly, Strauss concluded that prudence dictates that one choose between the life of philosophy (his choice) and sustained political engagement.
		Strauss maintained that political regimes encompass more than just their formal institutions but also depend upon the habits, mores, and customs of a society.
	www.amconmag.com /2005_01_17/review2.html (1779 words)

	Strauss - The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition - HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In 1844 he formed an orchestra that was immediately successful and became the rival of his father's.
		His other works for the stage were hampered by their inadequate librettos and a lack of dramatic interest.
		Two of his brothers, Josef Strauss, 1827-70, and Eduard Strauss, 1835-1916, were also successful composers and conductors.
	www.highbeam.com /doc/1E1:Strauss/Strauss.html?refid=ip_hf (253 words)

	Swans Commentary: Leo Strauss, by Milo Clark - mgc132
		"One of the great services that Strauss and his disciples have performed for the Bush regime has been the provision of a philosophy of the noble lie, the conviction that lies, far from being simply a regrettable necessity of political life, are instead virtuous and noble instruments of wise policy." (p.
		Shorris quotes Strauss: "Liberal education is the necessary endeavor to found an aristocracy with democratic mass society." (p.
		Strauss again: "It would be absurd to hamper the free flow of wisdom by any regulations; hence the rule of the wise must be absolute rule.
	www.swans.com /library/art10/mgc132.html (2002 words)

	Biography
		Strauss notes ideas for ‘Symphonic poem Held und Welt (Hero and World)...and as satyr-play to accompany it – Don Quichotte.’ First conducting engagements in Paris and London.
		Strauss is chosen to replace Bruno Walter and Toscanini in conducting engagements and is appointed president of Reichsmusikkammer by Goebbels without consultation.
		Nazis intercept a letter from Strauss to Zweig naively hoping for continuance of their relationship and asking him ‘do you imagine I have ever been led in the course of a single action by the thought that I am Germanic (perhaps, qui le sait?)’ Forced to resign his Reichsmusikkammer post.
	www.richard-strauss.com /biography.html (2014 words)

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