Hints and tips:
...Randall Thompson’s gently radiant Alleluia and Fare Well deserve to be popular choral favourites. Even Copland’s student settings have a certain comforting appeal....
...Musorgsky’s four-hour epic dramatises the turmoil preceding Peter the Great’s accession but carries modern resonances in Vladimir Putin et al....
...He was a “working man of the theatre” - arguably (but not in every respect) superior to Dekker, Middleton, Jonson et al, and no different in kind. He lived in a real world....
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