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...Venetian blinds! You can't. When the curtain goes up, Figaro is measuring and planning and Susanna is trying on a hat. Their music is for rearranging your furniture in different positions . . . And you don't have much time because soon Figaro will swing into Se vuol ballare, one of the best woodwork-washing pieces ever composed . . . How would I like an opera to open? With Venetian blinds-that is, music which requires delicacy and reaching-obviously a coloratura aria. Caro nome, for example, would be excellent . . . Wagner, during the Ring cycle, wants [the blinds] left dirty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Venetian-Blind Music | 9/23/1957 | See Source »

...following program will be presented: Symphony in B-flat major, No. 1 Schumann "O Mithra, all dein Strahlengold," from "Alexander Balus," Handel Caprice on Spanish Themes, Rimsky-Korsakoff "Chi vuol la Zingarella," Paisiello "Tre Giorni," Cianti Overture to "The Flying Dutchman," Wagner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SIXTH SYMPHONY IN SANDERS | 2/24/1916 | See Source »

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