Stirling Newberry wrote: >>The relationship in Peter Grime, the subtext, is of the societal view >>of "the love that dare not speak its name". > >Where is the evidence for this? There is no Bosie to Grimes's Oscar! Has anyone written an essay/study on the effect of Strauss' heterosexuality on Salome? No doubt this will stir a similar heated debate. David Harbin Nottingham, UK