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Posted by:	LegitOnce 09:10 pm EDT 08/07/14
In reply to:	re: Back when the met was young ... - LegitOnce 09:05 pm EDT 08/07/14

For example, "...when the score to a new American opera is as uneven as Mr. Heggie's, the popularity of the work is a more problematic matter.... Mr. Heggie's music, which, though professional and ardent, softens the edges of the grisly story. The score lacks the gravity, and subtlety, to deal with this subject. Echoes of Barber, Copland, Gershwin and especially Bernstein are too close to the surface. The vernacular music Mr. Heggie composes is quite tame, like the gospel tune that Sister Helen teaches the children at Hope House, the school she runs. Stronger composers evoke vernacular song and dance by adding some contemporary twists of their own."

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