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1980-1981. Supple song -- Operetta -- A half-and-half affair -- Tantantara! -- Grand opera -- Hall -- Buzz, buzz! -- Emotion -- Beverly! -- Character -- Temperaments -- Exotics -- Beacon -- Of dames, of knights, of love's delight -- Landmarks -- Light -- True reflection -- Hooking Leviathan -- Pacific song -- Bay laurels -- Gospel of peace -- Melodious falls -- A noble mind o'erthrown -- 1981-1982. Apollo's son -- Hurrah! Hurrah! -- Leading ladies -- Odyssey -- A fine resource -- Harp of the north! -- Celebration -- Finding the right path -- A loftier strain -- Music in the silence of the night -- Musica britannica -- Excursions -- Triptych -- Away, above the chimney tops -- Blazing, radiant -- Graceful, passionate, poetic -- Love's mazes -- Soldiers -- A magnificent epic -- Babbitt on Broadway -- Youthful splendor -- Cantate Domino -- Down in the valley -- Fidelity -- Fluting -- Dedication -- Passion -- Monument -- Testimony -- Athenian pursuit -- Apollonian pursuit -- Genius of a kind -- Serious matters -- Hall of song -- Eagle and nightingale -- Heart of grace -- Challenge -- American verismo -- A frail bark -- Music of time -- 1982-1983. Sounds and sweet airs -- Pastoral -- Under way -- Opera in earnest -- How it played in Peoria (and elsewhere) -- Aristocrats -- How to live in grace -- Saintly shout and solemn jubilee -- Ducal splendor -- A rake among scholars -- Sessions of strong-sounding thoughts -- Toil and trouble -- Vintages -- Gorgeous tragedy -- Queen in Babylon -- American symphonists -- Ripples -- What? When? How? -- By compassion made wise -- Generous youth -- Magical opera -- All-American -- New World symphony -- Divine spark -- Songs of experience -- Feast of reason, flow of soul -- Thought-executing fires -- Pastoral-tragical -- Desert song -- Too-looral-lay! -- Thalia -- Begun, the eternal work -- Tumult of mighty harmonies -- Branch line -- Harmony and grace -- A torch, a flame, a will-o'-the-wisp -- Pianists. |
