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A Dvorak Urban Legend, and Anna Moffo

Hi-

Great report, thanks.

There is a musicological urban legend that Dvorak wanted to set John Henry (later, Cardinal) Newman's mystical poem "The Dream of Gerontius," and his publisher (supposedly) sharply rebuked him: "Too Catholic!"

I have long wondered whether perhaps lukewarm marketplace reception of Dvorak's religious works in a Protestant country not yet fully having abandoned legal disabilities for Catholics (e.g., it would have been illegal for Oxford or Cambridge to register the young Edward Elgar as a student) had anything to do with that.

Elgar's own "Gerontius" had a mixed reception (at first) in England, but, it caused Strauss literally to toast Elgar as "England's first musical Progressive," and it was Kreisler's admiration of Gerontius that set in motion Elgar's Violin Concerto, which I, perhaps a majority of one, consider the greatest of all violin concerti.

Anna Moffo: Hot stuff. Back in the day. Are those nude pictures on the 'net genuine???

JM

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