"Here comes Superman! ... He hears the whistle . . . Listen to that snoring . . . There's the kazoo . . . Bop! ... He grabs his friend . . . and they're off!"
This, to hear Conductor Leonard Bernstein tell it, is what might be happening at a climactic moment during Richard Strauss's Don Quixote. Bernstein bawled this analysis from the podium at one of his current New York Philharmonic Young People's Concerts. His point: music does not need verbal meanings assigned to it, and Don Quixote could as well be...
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