It was in 1896 that Richard Strauss tried to express Friedrich Nietzsche’s philosophies through music.
72 years later, Stanley Kubrick chose Also Sprach Zarathustra as the introductory theme for his science-fiction movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Strauss’s music was suddenly all over the world.
We’ll go light on the Nietzsche as we see what Zarathustra has to say this Sunday.