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The key to all this is water, whose conspicuous display and consumption is as important a sign of luxury, of control over Nature, to Vegas entrepreneurs as it was to the Umayyad caliphs who began building the fountains of the Alhambra on a dry hillside near Granada 12 centuries ago...
Add to this the hushed lyricism of Jenny Giering's I Follow and the mordant merriment of Michael John LaChiusa's Mistress of the Senator, and you've got a collection guaranteed to make intelligent theater-music fans prick up their ears. There's only one catch: Way Back to...
Wolff directed the discussion away from Bach himself, claiming that Bach added little or nothing to the anti-Semitism of the text of the book of John. In fact, the arias that Bach added are far more devotional than accusatory, whereas the gospel texts repeatedly blame "die Juden" for the...
Is this some kind of joke? Not at all, according to Bolton. "These great arias, the ultimate means of expression for a tenor, have changed my perception of music, indeed my whole life, profoundly and permanently," he explains in his earnest liner notes. They've certainly changed the course of...
Would that Bolton sang as well as he sells, for My Secret Passion is a grotesque example of what can happen when a famous amateur suffering from delusions of adequacy falls into the hands of cynical record executives looking to boost the bottom line by any means necessary. The results...