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EDITORIAL FINANCE: Genevieve Christy (Manager); Esther Cedeno, Carl Harmon, Morgan Krug, Katherine Young (Domestic); Camille Sanabria, Aston Wright (News Service); Linda D. Vartoogian, Wayne Chun, Edward Nana Osei-Bonsu (Pictures...
EDITORIAL FINANCE: Genevieve Christy (Manager); Esther Cedeno, Carl Harmon, Morgan Krug, Katherine Young (Domestic); Camille Sanabria, Aston Wright (News Service); Linda D. Vartoogian, Wayne Chun, Edward Nana Osei-Bonsu (Pictures...
EDITORIAL FINANCE: Genevieve Christy (Manager); Esther Cedeno, Carl Harmon, Morgan Krug, Katherine Young (Domestic); Camille Sanabria, Aston Wright (News Service); Linda D. Vartoogian, Wayne Chun, Edward Nana Osei-Bonsu (Pictures...
Sirlin's wizardry, however, has been lavished on a curiously old-fashioned trio of composers. The best of the new works is Weisgall's Esther, by a composer who turns 81 this week and whose fondness for outmoded, Schoenberg- style serialism remains unabated. The story of Esther's dramatic rescue of the Jews from the evil Persian vizier Haman, celebrated each year in the feast of Purim, is one of the Bible's most gripping tales, and Weisgall, working to a libretto by Charles Kondek, has told it well. Tunes, no; drama, yes. The stark and uncompromising Esther...
EDITORIAL FINANCE: Genevieve Christy (Manager); Esther Cedeno, Carl Harmon, Morgan Krug, Katherine Young (Domestic); Camille Sanabria, Aston Wright (News Service); Linda D. Vartoogian, Wayne Chun, Edward Nana Osei-Bonsu (Pictures...