Felix Cherniavsky - Depictions of Maud Allan's "Vision of Salome"

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Felix Cherniavsky - Depictions of Maud Allan's "Vision of Salome"

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23 Ben 2 Rebut Reveand Jan 2 Salome ay hat . . sires Sabie specially masteriny on teak : that be hai wa melodie ts that its hem vre commonpino orticult trace reminiscences in some Str23 a fikewise been focused of mining efleets by the risk of suddenly , after his Tront extraVentoutbursts or discov ) reverting simple , smooth melodie ou Balls harmonized in meniu hadis aunt , with arouely in setoristie chromatic turn , the final Justiition of the themes the use they lend thesives to , and of them Strauss has been able to build up a superb fabrie darsit thring overpowering ditan beautiful ; but , at all events . wondertally *** Presive of what he simed to express The course of the drama was traced in Last Sunday's TIMES , and nerd not here Le repeated . Tte is Detone scene , and It is unrolled without interruption , lasting alvout 8.11 hour and forty minute . The musterters and falls in Interest and im pressiveness with the dramit . There are dull and tedious spots , spots in which dis cord Lecomeswarisone , and in which the music lacks distinction . But the points of greatest value are wonderfully pres . The music with Balante caron arraboth Into ordering the prophet brought forth has charm orchestral passage that shows Salomes er expectancy as the soldiers go to feteh him is a subtle piece of delineation . The appearance of Jokanaan le impres sive , as the tall figure of the prophet arises from the elstern accorpanied by Clit mensured strains of His motive of premation His first solemn words in rebuke of Herodias are egunlly impres . sive . The mounting passion of Balome for Jokanaan is depicted with subtle resource and continence of expenditure . The music is delicately scored . Salome ' seductive Dacana in praise of Jolanaan's body . of his hair , of his mouth . are expressed in terms of restatie longing that stand out against the suddesi hysterical revulsions of feeling that follow his rebukes . climax of this situation is reached in her Passion for his mouth , her desire to kiss It . from which he will not be turned Here is the first of the great climaxes of the drama and the use of the theme : ex pressing the culmination of her longing scarcely more than a fragment in itself , evolves from it all the raing storm of sensual desire that t0w ways the Prin The orchestra Intones with im . menge power the defeat of Balome , the urtumph of the prophet's asceticisin , he turns and descends again to his cistern . The Whois spirit of the scene changes with the emergence of Herod wil Hero ding and his courtiers from the banquet The inquiet restlessness of lerod , his indecision , his shriveled inconse quence , his errors and un imngit thes the bickering of Herodias , all are shadowed forth in the music . Again , it takes a soductive charm , as Herod sees Salome and invites her to drink wine with him , eat fruit with him , sit by him . The episode of the Jews quarreling with each other before the Tetrarch about God . His nature , His works , the prophet , the Nes siah is one of the capital points of the Strauss is a humorist ; and here the one plain Salonie where he has given his sense ol humor free play . quintet animaiert . tumultuous , rancousse music , but voicing the quar reisome trivinity of the dispute , which is nereoVOL kung with astonishing free . dom and certainty and acted with most musing realisen . Salome's dance is in itself an amazing Port de force , & drama within itself . It begins with a touch of Oriental color in intervals and rhythins . But Strass has Tur too keep a sense of effect to how the Orientalism in his music to weary the listener . The music $ 00 akstrother tone more personal more suggestive of Salome's own character and passions . The catastrophe is not slos coming after salome has demanded hot remari . the head of Jokanaan . and Herod , after 1 sort of rain imploring and offering or substitute . yields to her 15 ie has sworn to do . His hasty enumeration of al he has that may be there insteach . pearis . topazes , chrysolltes beryls , bis greatest emerald . his white percocks , comes out in an urgent outpouring 1 : 1 all has . Afier the executioner has gone down into the cistern to his soric , the sit uation of tense and fearful expectancy 18 wonderfully set forth in the thin tremolo of the orchestra , thropath which sounds a dull tone , repeated , like the suppressed Broaning of a woman . A long black arm reaches up the silver sind , which Salome eagerly siezes , i pon it rests the head of the Baptist . without concealment or pretense of any kind to save the nerres or shelter the sex sibilities of the audience . It has the ashen hun of death : the long black hair . the black beard , encirete it , as they did a few moments before the head of the v ing man upon the stage Salomé holiis it before her , transfixing it with her gaze . She carries it forward and puts it down upon the ground . prostrates herself by it , and all my see the dreadful mov ing and caressing stie gives it . 2.3101 which she herself so eloquently de scribe Salome's long apostrophe to this rear ful trophy is the veritable climax of the work is wrought with a wonderful skill with a marshaling of motives that expresanet all the necession of de sires that have stormed through her soul . and the apex of it all is where she bursts out , I thou hadst looked at me , thou wouldst hav loved me ! Mme Fremstad added perhaps the crown to all that she le don at the Metropolitan in her wonderful impersona . tion of Salome And from thly need not be excepted her Kundry . The part , as are all parts , vocal and instrumental in this work is of enormous technical difficulty . This impersonation was completely con sistent in its representation of the feline sensualist and in the growth of her pas sion from here curiosity to a consuming flame of desire . She presented a figura of wonderful exotie beauty , of lithe and snaky grace , with the languor and the fire of the Orient , the passion of a pere