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His diary shrank to a litany of suffering and a threnody for what might have been.
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Sara Wheeler, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2018
Most critics acknowledged the score’s beautiful moments, especially Cleopatra’s death scene, in which the character’s plaintive lyrical lines are capped by a chilling choral threnody.
—Anthony Tommasini, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2017
Needless to say, Murray’s threnody for Europe is as fundamentally incoherent as its late-19th-century originals.
—Pankaj Mishra, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2017
Threnody in X (FTF), Soda Pop (FTF), Corn Hives (FTF), Facts (FTF),
—Sophie Brown, WIRED, 9 Aug. 2011
Sara Wheeler, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2018
Most critics acknowledged the score’s beautiful moments, especially Cleopatra’s death scene, in which the character’s plaintive lyrical lines are capped by a chilling choral threnody.
—Anthony Tommasini, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2017
Needless to say, Murray’s threnody for Europe is as fundamentally incoherent as its late-19th-century originals.
—Pankaj Mishra, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2017
Threnody in X (FTF), Soda Pop (FTF), Corn Hives (FTF), Facts (FTF),
—Sophie Brown, WIRED, 9 Aug. 2011
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