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By Charles Michener 11/15/04 12:00am

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How many opera librettos can you sit down and read just for the pleasure of it? It’s beyond dispute that behind every great opera is a great libretto, but only scholars are apt to curl up with Giovanni Francesco Busenello’s text for The Coronation of Poppea , or Lorenzo da Ponte’s for The Marriage of Read More

By Charles Michener 3/02/98 12:00am

Free Your Mind And Your Ears Will Follow

It is axiomatic about new, serious music that it is far from accessible on first acquaintance-indeed, that it may remain opaque, if not downright hostile, to our ears even after a second or third hearing. Addressing this problem in one of his Charles Eliot Norton lectures at Harvard University, the American composer Roger Sessions, whose Read More

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