Thursday, May 20, 2010

Strauss and Screaming Jews

The following is the text of a passage from R. Strauss's opera, Salome. Apparently, Jews have been howling for at least the last 2,000 years. Maybe its genetic!

FIRST SOLDIER: What an uproar! Who are those wild beasts howling!

SECOND SOLDIER: The Jews. They are always like that. They are disputing about their religion.

FIRST SOLDIER: Why do they dispute about their religion?

SECOND SOLDIER: I cannot tell. They are always doing. The Pharisees, for instance, say that there are angels, and the Sadducees declare that angels do not exist.

FIRST SOLDIER: I think it is ridiculous to dispute about such things.

The following is a scene from Salome -- but without the screaming Jews. The excerpt has Hebrew subtitles, so the screaming Jews in the blogosphere can understand.

1 comment:

My Daily Struggles said...

Did you know that Salome was the first opera Bernie Epstein ever saw?

He told me that in 1970. I always remember everything about Strauss.