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...text is the second Idyll, one of literature's great love poems, by 3rd century B.C. Greek Poet Theocritus. The piece divides into four moods, as the forsaken girl Simaitha gathers magic spells, then tells the moon goddess how she met her lover, goes on to tell how she became his mistress, and finally explains his desertion and her determination to win him back. Sessions scarcely lets the soprano come up for air. At Louisville, Oklahoma-born Singer Audrey Nossaman needed all her excellent technique-and her strength -for some 40 minutes of music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Masterpiece in Louisville? | 1/30/1956 | See Source »

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