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Shoppers in search of items related to eating and cooking can go to Lucullus, which features antique culinary finds in two stores, on Chartres and Magazine streets, says owner Patrick Dunn. In addition to such varied items as a $35 breadbasket and a $35,000 18th century French dining-room table, the stores have some unique pieces. For instance, the Chartres Street location features a Sicilian clay wine cup dating back to biblical times that sells...
...social oddities and human blemishes. Horace carefully examined every ointment, hoping to discover a fly in it, minutely tested every piece of armor, hoping to encounter a crack; yet in all this there was less malice than sense of metier. As Beau Brummell dressed for future ages, or Lucullus dined, Walpole peered into corners. But he had, too, his more special, often laborious pursuits: Strawberry Hill, the house he built to his own design at Twickenham, virtually ushered in Britain's Gothic Revival, as his novel The Castle of Otranto set going that revival in fiction...
Rarest item on the program was Sessions' 72-minute, one-act opera, The Trial of Lucullus, with a libretto originally written as a radio play by Germany's Bertolt Brecht. The unrelievedly dissonant work has to do with the plea of the Roman general Lucullus, for admission to the Elysian fields before a jury of citizens. Although it had several appealing orchestral passages and at least one rousing chorus, the opera for the most part is in what Sessions calls his "linear and severe" mood, with many of the vocal parts written in droning monotone...
Emissaries from Rome. The battles known to history as "The Mithradatic Wars" went on for a quarter of a century. First Sulla, then Fimbria, and finally Lucullus smashed Mithradates' armies; the earlier massacre was repaid with the massacre of 300,000 of Mithradates' people. Mithradates flew for refuge to his son-in-law, King Tigranes of Armenia. A few years later, Tigranes marched forth at the head of 250,000 foot soldiers and 55,000 horsemen. To meet him went Rome's Lucullus with a mere handful of men-causing Tigranes to remark: "If these men have...
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 like my work too much to go to anyone with a score under my arm." Sessions is getting played in spite of this attitude: his lurid suite from The Black Maskers was performed this season by the Boston Symphony and is scheduled to be played at Tanglewood, where he will...