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Penguin Cafe Orchestra’s Concert Program 

I really, really hate it when my arsenal of comparisons, parallels, antecedents and influences doesn’t work. It is one of my chief means, as a reviewer, of giving my audience a handle, an entrée, so to speak, into something that … Continue reading

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Aaron Copland’s Music for the Theatre

Aaron Copland and Leonard Bernstein are household names in the United States. Copland is perhaps the one American composer most U.S. citizens could identify if asked. Perhaps not as well known is the fact that Copland and Bernstein were friends … Continue reading

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