Music: Strauss at 70
Twenty-nine years have passed since Richard Strauss's Salome first shed her veils for Herod, shrieked her demands for the head of John the Baptist, groveled before it, kissed its cold lips. Scene was the Dresden Opera House where four years later Elektra scuttled crazily about the stage, screaming her lust for vengeance. Dresden heard the first Rosenkavalier, the first Egyptian Helen, the first Arabella, Strauss's latest opera (TIME, July 10). It was a right and fitting act of gratitude, therefore, for Dresden to stage a seven-day festival last week in honor of the greatest living composer's 70th birthday.
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