Some songwriters started writing poetry before segueing into song. Others will even say that most of their songs started as a poem, or inspired by the work of classic poetry, or poets. Videos by ...

The March 15 concert, which will be under the baton of Maestro Charles Prince, will feature Richard Strauss’s Four Last Songs ...

The composer’s final works, set to three poems by Hermann Hesse and one by Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff, view death not as ...

Like many eventual conservatives, the composer Richard Strauss (1864-1949) began as a radical, effectively reinventing the orchestral tone poem in the late 19th century, then testing the limits of ...

We are spiritual beings having a human experience.” Or, as the poet Hermann Hesse wrote, “You will be neurotic and a foe to ...

Looking back, I might have done some things differently today, but I find myself surprised and sometimes even moved by the ...

We are spiritual beings having a human experience.” Or, as the poet Hermann Hesse wrote, “You will be neurotic and a foe to life—so says your soul—if you neglect me.” We neglect our ...

Herman Hesse 22. "I saw that you were perfect ... "At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet." — Plato 64. "Love cures people—both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it." ...

Indian spiritual wisdom and its literature have captivated the minds of great Western writers. Many of them have written ...