Why Transcribe Strauss Four Last Songs?
Composer, arranger, WWS oboist and music director emeritus Michael Purves-Smith provides unique insight into his thinking as he transcribed Strauss’ Four Last Songs, to be featured on our concerts on October 23 and 30, 2016. Why Transcribe Strauss’ Four Last Songs? by Michael Purves-Smith When Jan Narveson of the Kitchener Waterloo Chamber Music Society first …