Leonard Bernstein breaks down the opening of Richard Strauss’s “Also Sprach Zarathustra” on a Young People’s Concert titled “Thus Spake Richard Strauss,” which aired nationwide on CBS in 1971. This was one of Bernstein’s few YPCs to focus entirely on just one piece of music. Hear the NY Phil play the work in its entirety on our first concerts of 2025, taking place January 2–4 & 7! Learn more ▶️ https://www.nyphil.org/concerts-tickets/2425/strauss-zarathustra/ | New York Philharmonic

In this deeper dive into philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche we are going to look at his big ideas and his overall philosophy through the orienting generalisation of his thought as being health vs. decadence. Through this lens we can fruitfully place Nietzsche's "no-saying" work where he critiques Christianity, science and philosophy as well as his "yes-saying" work in Thus Spoke Zarathustra (with Zarathustra's three great ideas of the Ubermensch, the Eternal Recurrence and the Will to Power) and hi