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1983-1984. Music visible -- High festival -- Melodious Albion -- Summer sampling -- Swan of Pesaro -- Not magic but the human heart -- Ta ta ta ta ta ... Dear Maelzel -- Images of exuberant beauty -- Terros and tragedies -- Fatal error of misguided love -- Something borrowed, something new -- Manners, virtue, freedom, power -- Musica per dramma -- Beginnings -- Songs with a mind -- Characters -- The powers of music -- In defense of Philidor -- Airs of England -- Completest concerts -- Parade -- Nessun maggior dolore -- Showing a mystery -- Pageant -- The tide of pomp -- These images, these reverberations -- Reëncounters -- Beside the sea -- Riding the waves -- Voices of Rome -- Out of the maze -- Chatter, patter, and rant -- Aiming high -- Paean -- Golds and blues -- Sound-houses -- High encounters -- Clipped wings -- Triumph of Oriana -- Sacrifice -- Give her black eyes -- Another time, another place -- Love in a garden -- Roundup -- The path of duty -- 1984-1985. Un viaggio a Pesaro -- Transmutation -- Serious, beautiful operas -- Line and color -- Desert song -- Ascendant -- Arboresque -- Crying for peace and love -- Riches in little room -- Musica da camera -- Chivalry -- Melodious winds have birth -- A long pull to get there -- The silver answer rang -- Light -- Airs of earth and heaven -- There is a river -- To stir, to rouse, to shake the soul he comes -- Such as found out musical tunes -- True colors -- Dedication -- Expressive, lucid, romantic -- Immortal? -- Questions of scale -- Gentleness and chivalries -- Courtesy, humanity, hardiness -- O glad, exulting song -- Beside the river and into the trees -- Wagner goes west -- Great Handel -- Infinite variety -- Heroine -- Melodious cats -- 1985-1986. Franco-Caledonian -- Brought to life -- Thursday splendor -- Making music theatre -- Troubling times -- Birthday honors -- Voices of today -- Handel in Maryland -- A happy, easy feeling -- Flutes, and Figaro -- Nightingales and eagles -- Unhappy queen and happy prince -- Tuneful choirs -- Flames -- Actions of magnitude -- Taking the lead -- Medieval and Modern -- Palaces -- From highest glory fall'n -- Scenes without settings -- Prodigal -- Soul-animating strains -- Romantic warrior -- Serious, stirring -- Responding -- Only connect -- Discourse most eloquent -- Surfeit -- Nurstling of the graces -- Symphonic aspiration -- Musical elements -- Child Mabel -- Another Orpheus sings -- Uplifting, entertaining -- Perspectives -- Let's make an opera -- High time -- Parnassian peaks -- Fundamentals -- Approximations -- Festivals. |
