Klarinet Archive - Posting 000040.txt from 2008/02

From: kurtheisig@-----.net
Subj: Re: [kl] Strauss' use of orgasms
Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2008 03:45:47 -0500

Then there is Scriabin's Poem of Ecstacy

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>From: Daniel Leeson <dnleeson@-----.net>
>Sent: Feb 1, 2008 12:29 PM
>To: "klarinet@-----.org>
>Subject: [kl] Strauss' use of orgasms
>
>In speaking about Salome, I mentioned that Strauss presented music to
>describe Salome's orgasm. This apprentaly is her first because she is a real
>necrophiliac, unable to achieve sexual satisfaction except in the present of
>a dead body or even a fragment of a body. And she would have had little
>previous opportunity or experience with that kind of thing. (By the way,
>necrophila is illegal almost everywhere. It is pretty icky stuff.)
>
>But that opera was not the last time that Strauss would use orchestral music
>to simulate an orgasm.
>
>Just before the curtain rises on Rosenkavalier's first act, the orchestral
>music infers that the couple (the 17-year old Octavian and the 36 year old
>Marshallin) are having sex. And suddenly, in case you are from a small
>midwestern town and don't know much about this kind of thing, Stauss give
>the orchestra's 4 horns some three or four giant whoops, that simply have no
>place in the orchestral music's material. But now that you know what they
>are, pay attention to the music the next time you hear or play
>Rosenkavalier.
>
>Dan Leeson
>dnleeson@-----.net
>SKYPE: dnleeson
>
>
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