Scott Tisdel wrote:
>
>Regarding reduced orchestrations, particularly in Strauss:
>>... I, for one, find it hard to believe that Strauss would
>>waste his time on such drudgery--

Mrs Richard Strauss, the formidable Pauline, would have agreed. She chided
Strauss for wasting his time writing a reduction of Salome in the hope that
Elisabeth Schumann would agree to sing it. Pauline was right, Schumann never
sang it.

Richard Davies