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Re: The Anguish and/or Apotheosis of St. Francis
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Fred Fry <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 30 Sep 2002 11:13:07 EDT
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Janos Gereben said:

>Reaction to Olivier Messiaen's "Saint Francois d'Assise" will be "or" -
>wonderful or terrible, the ecstasy or the agony.
>
>But the fact is that the San Francisco Opera's US stage premiere tonight
>of the 1983 opera is a definite "and," a complex presentation of good
>and bad.  ...

In the Washington Post for 9/30/02, Tim Page also offers a review
and impressions of San Francisco Opera's "Saint Francois d'Assise":

   http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20691-2002Sep29.html

Fred Fry
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