Mustachioed men, enigmas in their dark, hooded djellabas, wield barrows swollen with writhing turtles, honey-sweet dates and jangling copper kettles.
Among his several books are two on Richard Strauss Richard Strausss (Master Musicians Series, 1976) and Richard Strauss, Man, Musician, Enigma (CUP, 1999).
Kennedy's indispensable 1999 study, Richard Strauss: Man, Musician, Enigma, tackled at greater length the problematic issues surrounding the composer's conduct during the Nazi era.
As Michael Kennedy observes in his masterfully succinct study of the composer (Richard Strauss: Man, Musician, Enigma), it was an end, not a climax.
A CRITIC AT LARGE about Richard Strauss and two new biographies, "Richard Strauss: Man, Musician, Enigma" (Cambridge) by Michael Kennedy, and "Richard Strauss" (Northeastern) by Matthew Boyden... Tells about the Graz premiere of Strauss's "Salome"...The premiere of Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring," in Paris, in 1913, is more often cited as the century's revolutionary moment.
As the music critic Michael Kennedy makes clear in his masterful biography Richard Strauss: Man, Musician, Enigma, after Hitler came to power in January 1933, Strauss faced a moral and professional quandary (as did all professional musicians in Germany at the time).
Steele, the man, remains an enigma.
The man is an enigma," wrote Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
And, in the end, Cicero the man remains an enigma.
He left nearly £20,000 in his will, worth almost $4m in today's money.For all his fame, Handel the man remains an enigma.
"JCC" is a polymath, renaissance man and true enigma, but seems to have a clear idea of what he is and what he is not.
