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Mayor James M. Curley of Boston announced that the Chicago Opera Company will not be permitted to perform Strauss' Salome in Boston during the coming season. This reaffirms a decision which forebade the giving of Salome a year...
...opera (a play by Wilde, set to music by Richard Strauss) is said to be "a danger to public morals." The Strauss score, though, has had, in other cities, small public appeal. It is a true masterpiece, but one of recondite perplexities. It moves only persons of considerable musical culture, folk whose morals (generally speaking) are not in need of any spoiling. The lyrics of the play, in French, are understood by few, and are in addition not half so lascivious or persuasive as the text of the average A. H. Woods farce. The operatic pantomime, when well done, evokes...
...program of tonight's concert will be different from that of the opening concert in Symphony Hall last Friday in all except two numbers,-Brahm's Variations on a theme by Haydn, and Strauss Dance of the Seven Veils from "Salome". The numbers which Mr. Monteux will play tonight for the first time are Rachmaninov, Symphony No. 2; Saint-Saens, aria from "Sampson and Delilah"; and Verdi, aria from "San Carlos...
...Monteux gives as artistic an interpretation to the new numbers of tonight's concert as he has already displayed in the selections from Brahms and Strauss, the audience in Sanders Theatre may be assured of a most satisfying concert...
Especially enthusiastic was the audience over the rendering of the Dance of the Seven Veils from "Salome". Of this version, one critic said, "The music exhales languors, weaves repetitions, sensuously rustles and prickles. When Strauss would have it a smother of sensuality in the full, thick, velvet voices of horns and violoncellos; when he would have his wood-winds bite as with the little white teeth of Salome in the old chronicles; when the dance ends in a whirr of trills, high and shrill, darting and piercing, the conductor was heightening voice to the composer and as quick, sure-fingered...