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...large orchestral pieces. Usually, the content deals with a highly individual and somewhat unemotional experience, as contrasted with the generalized, synthetic experiences of most late Romanticism. Despite evident overwriting for the woodwinds in relleas at Melisande and ineffective use of both violin and 'cello in the Trio opus 120, his themes are well handled...
...rather trying to watch Melville Smith playing the piano perfectly in the Trio opus 120 while Lauga and Zighera sawed away happily, playing the right notes without any idea as to why they were there...
Even less faithful readers, whose wrinkles have kept pace, year by year, with those of Author Remains' characters, are likely to regard the closing volumes of the opus with the kind of intimate regret they feel for their own receding hairlines. But late-arrival readers who stroll in on the latest 559 pages will find that, though they may miss the average novel's cosy intimacy, they can easily learn to enjoy a cast of characters whose past is already in the public library...
Beethoven: opus 125 (Ninth Symphony) at 53; the great string Quartets...
Infra-red photography, which will pierce a layer of pigment, showed a different inscription underneath: "vjtorjs carpattjj venettj opus (Work of Vittore Carpaccio of Venice)." Using solvents which would not harm the original painting surface, a technician removed the varnishes. The forged signature came off too, but Carpaccio's remained almost illegible. The reason: Carpaccio had apparently painted it out himself...