"The year 1919 was pivotal in European culture, with bold portents for the postwar future " it was the year that Walter Gropius founded the Bauhaus and Marcel Duchamp painted a mustache on the Mona Lisa. [Richard Strauss's] Die Frau ohne Schatten, in contrast, was almost reassuringly conservative in its late Romantic musical language, in […]
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:18PM on October 15, 2019