[DOC] [TLE] Saint John the Baptist | Channel | National Gallery, London [PAR] Make this a monthly donation ... It's a small sum of money but donated willingly, 
for culture and for young people. Share this page ..... The Baptist's Head. [DOC] [TLE] Not only with words, but with lively gestures  parterre box [PAR] Apr 12, 2016 ... Elektra's tardy 1932 Metropolitan Opera premiere was reported in the New ... We 
get an idea of how Elektra might have been staged a half century ago, but ... 
Although one of the more successful examples of its kind, Friedrich's film ... and 
go ahead: Yes, there are so many famous singers (even very famous... [DOC] [TLE] Richard Strauss: the operas | gramophone.co.uk [PAR] Guntram was written while Strauss was suffering from a very severe attack of .... 
today, and also because he wrote so many superior operas in the years ahead. ... 
The hi-fi man who wants to be able to reproduce the whole texture of the score ... 
just before the head of John the Baptist is brought from the cistern on its salver. [DOC] [TLE] Anthony Tommasini -- Talk to the Newsroom -- The New York Times ... [PAR] Feb 8, 2009 ... and Strauss's "Salome. ... Most opera buffs have lists of works they consider 
neglected. ... Still, I start off wanting to be as encouraging as possible, to be, yes, 
sensitive. ... But it's amazing to me how seldom I hear performances of really ..... 
Q. If you were the new head man, what might you do that would help... [DOC] [TLE] Strauss, R. | Paul Thomason [PAR] Opuses 33, 44, and 51 lead up to Salome and Elektra; Opus 71 comes from the 
troubled years ... Strauss had found his own voice as a composer of songs very 
early, with his ... Certainly Strauss never forgave Munich, His second opera, 
Feuersnot (which premiered in ..... Unfortunately, it's rather clunky and heavy 
handed. [DOC] [TLE] Writing | Paul Thomason | Writer | Page 4 [PAR] It's particularly difficult to find  for this entrance of the sons of the desert  the 
kind of ... to the ears of 1925, without degenerating into the so-called realism of 
Salome, or even the ... Jeritza, if she really wants to, can then create the part in 
Vienna in September .... Strauss and Busch outside the Dresden State Opera, 
1928. [DOC] [TLE] Presidential Lecture 1988 - Beaumont Glass - The University of Iowa [PAR] Nearer to our present day, Astrid Varnay could make us shiver with her shattering 
... Lotte Lehmann as The Composer in Ariadne Auf Naxos by Richard Strauss, 
... Lotte had started her career in opera with bit parts at the Hamburg Municipal 
..... then the minister of education, was on the telephone, wanting to speak to her. [DOC] [TLE] A musicologist gently castigates NY Times music chief  Slipped Disc [PAR] Aug 10, 2016 ... More generally, Mozart's operas are attuned to the evils of male ... It involves a 
mute black man who is apparently a slave. ... Well, the New York Times really 
could have published that. ... I hope another newspaper will take its place. ..... of 
the music: Pellas et Mlisande by Debussy, Salome by R. Strauss. [DOC] [TLE] Josephine Barstow Interview with Bruce Duffie . . . . . . [PAR] Opera being a very expensive medium now, and those problems are getting 
worse ... But he was not at all the same kind of man as Tippett. .... Mostly it's a 
question of wanting to do some of the roles I've done again and getting them right
. .... Unfortunately, the recording business tends to center in on just a few singers, 
so as... [DOC] [TLE] Santo Caserta - The Philadelphia Orchestra [PAR] Dec 1, 2013 ... concerts and for your generosity in contributing to help make ... Orchestra is 
adding to its traditions with two performances of ... community, and this is very 
important to Yannick. ... Strauss's revolutionary opera Salome, a first-ever co-
production .... head of a kneeling other man,

Question: In a Strauss opera, Salome really wants to get ahead -- unfortunately, it's this man's head
Answer: John the Baptist