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Month: April 2014

Nothing, my Florestan

Posted on April 7, 2014September 20, 2016 gordonkaltonwilliamsLeave a commentPosted in My blog, The power of the libretto

Another observation in the perennial argument over words and the music in opera: To those who say that music is more powerful than words I often say that no composer can match Abraham Lincoln’s prose. Copland’s Lincoln Portrait is okay, but he doesn’t allow a single speech to dominate. And is there a composer in […]

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