"AIDA" REIGNS, STRAVINSKY CONQUERS -- MUSIC WITHOUT WARS
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By Donna Perlmutter Grand opera. No, maybe let’s call it grandiloquent opera. You know, the kind that overwhelms the senses with sound -- thousands of voices raised to the rafters, orchestral resplendence -- with vast stretches of stage space filling with pomp and ceremony peopled by army choruses, priests, captives, slaves, horses or even elephants accompanying them.
"AIDA" REIGNS, STRAVINSKY CONQUERS -- MUSIC WITHOUT WARS
"AIDA" REIGNS, STRAVINSKY CONQUERS -- MUSIC…
"AIDA" REIGNS, STRAVINSKY CONQUERS -- MUSIC WITHOUT WARS
By Donna Perlmutter Grand opera. No, maybe let’s call it grandiloquent opera. You know, the kind that overwhelms the senses with sound -- thousands of voices raised to the rafters, orchestral resplendence -- with vast stretches of stage space filling with pomp and ceremony peopled by army choruses, priests, captives, slaves, horses or even elephants accompanying them.