Denis Fodor wrote:

>"Michael N. Butera" recommends as...
>
>>...  a purely instrumental, direct musical expression of a sexual
>>experience: Richard Strauss' "Sinfonia Domestica" with its explicit
>>and famous (infamous?) "Love Scene" in the Adagio.
>
>And, by the same composer, lets not forget the Dance of the Seven Veils in
>his opera Salome.

I have videotaped a performance where the delectable Maria Ewing actually
takes off all seven veils, never seen that done before by an opera star....

Philip (ah, Maria...;)