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Nevertheless, Lucullus was difficult. Composer Sessions explains that his music is "of line, rather than of detail," and since today's listeners are accustomed to focusing on detail, they find it hard to follow. Sessions has never pushed performances of Lucullus or of any other work. Says he: "I...
Wagner's Siegfried Idyll demonstrated fine woodwind playing, but it suffered from some insecure string intonation and from a general inflexibility unsuited to this music of warm and affectionate caresses.
Edith was only five when she attempted to run away from home, but returned because she couldn't lace her boots. At Renishaw, the Sitwell country house in Derbyshire, the child's first friend was a peacock which used to wait for her each morning. "I would go...
For many happy years, Italy's No. 2 Communist, Luigi Longo, could sing with Poet Burns: "My love is like a red, red rose." His idyll began back in the 1920s when Communist Longo, then as now a better organizer than speechmaker, got trapped in dialectic during an argument...
Years before Jung invented a "collective unconscious," Kipling was exploring, in Wireless, what he described as "the main-stream of subconscious thought common to all mankind." In The Brushwood Boy, he built a boy-meets-girl idyll around the notion that dreams may be shared though the dreamers be continents...