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And I'm now on my fourth draft of a note to the plumber about replacing an old cast-iron wastewater line with polyvinyl-chloride pipe. After a fairly straightforward preamble, it veers off into a six-page symbolist idyll about a lake and a passenger-less rowboat "drifting away...
But the war intrudes into this wartime idyll. Elsa is Jewish. She is the anonymous philanthropist who puts money in a trust for Luca, delivers passports with his help to a Jewish woman, and, after the war breaks out, pays to move her English acquaintances from a dingy barracks to...
But the war intrudes into this wartime idyll. Elsa is Jewish. She is the anonymous philanthropist who puts money in a trust for Luca, delivers passports with his help to a Jewish woman, and, after the war breaks out, pays to move her English acquaintances from a dingy barracks to...
The concert also featured Wagner's Siegfried Idyll, that phylanstery of complex chromatic chords. While this piece showed off Allanbrook's technique to advantage, the performance suffered from major intonation problems. The tempi were questionable, but the reading cohered, if quirkily, and the ambition was impressive given the forces available...
The concert also featured Wagner's Siegfried Idyll, that phylanstery of complex chromatic chords. While this piece showed off Allanbrook's technique to advantage, the performance suffered from major intonation problems. The tempi were questionable, but the reading cohered, if quirkily, and the ambition was impressive given the forces available...