excerpt from 'The Nantucket Diary of Ned Rorem 1973-1985' pp. 347 (59 words)
excerpt from 'The Nantucket Diary of Ned Rorem 1973-1985' pp. 347 (59 words)
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With George Perle to Julliard's conscientious production of Roger Sessions's Montezuma, a concerto for two xylophones and orchestra with incidental human voices. That the voices were incidental is fortunate, the text (by Borgese) being as stilted and puerile a libretto as ever penned. Sessions lived with that text for twenty-two years! His piece is a mess, charmless, without music. |
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