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Re: Schreier's Simply Intoxicating Journey in Wine Country
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Bernard Chasan <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 4 Nov 1999 13:53:43 -0500
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Janos Gereben describes Peter Schreier's performance of the Wintereise
cycle as "joyous".  That sounds quite impossible.  The cycle is about
despair and madness - about as joyous as Wozzeck.  Yet Janos is a reliable
observer of the music scene.  What am I missing?

Professor Bernard Chasan
Physics Department, Boston University

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