Word: somnambula
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...functionalism but the discovery of a new quality of integrity. "Music," as Roger Sessions remarked in his opening lecture, "is to be judged on its own merits, however slowly they reveal themselves. . . . The criteria is authenticity and immediacy in regard to experience." Some way out of our present musical somnambula must be found. "The world," feels Mr. Kirchner, "needs shock treatment; this is the role of the avant-garde. It is sacrificial, self-immolating." The purpose of such men as John Cage and Pierre Boulez is to inter the paralyzing reputations of the masters, especially the twentieth-century masters...
...Lucia, Rigoletto, Mignon, Barber of Seville, Linda di Chamounix, Somnambula, Coq d'Or, Tales of Hoffmann, Lakmé (her favorite...
GLOBE. - Emma! Abbott Grand English Opera Company in "Somnambula...
BOSTON THEATRE. - 7.30 P.M.; Matinee, Saturday at 2. With this week closes the run of "Voyagers in Southern Seas." December 27, Her "Majesty's Opera Company." The operas to be given during the first week are "Aida," "Lucia," "Mefistofele," "Rigoletto," "Carmen," "Somnambula." Sunday, January 2, "Stabat Mater...
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