The beautiful and tragic Metamorphosen was composed by German composer Richard Strauss at the age of 80 in 1945. The music was written in response to the fire-bombing of Dresden and the destruction of the opera house there. The destruction of Hiroshima by an atomic bomb in that same year make this audio-visual coupling rather appropriate. I took the photographs myself on my trip to Japan in 2011. Andre Previn leads the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.
