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...over romance. It isn’t the first time Marsalis has used music to foster social discussion. “Blood on the Fields,” his 1997 Pulitzer Prize-winning oratorio, explored the history of slavery and his 1999 chamber work “A Fiddler??s Tale” leveled biting sarcasm at musicians who “sell their soul” to the corporate “devil” that is the music industry. But none of this history can prepare listeners for the vicious social and political criticism...
Although the staging of the age-old musical is fairly traditional, Galper says she chose to emphasize Fiddler??s emotional turbulence...
Galper says her appeal to emotion also ensures that Fiddler??s message reaches its audience despite the production’s 19th-century trappings. The play’s human conflict, sandwiched as it is with song and dance, leaves the audience remembering more than the melodies as the curtain falls...
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