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In honor of Memorial Day, today's Beautiful Music is a special presentation. It's a performance of ARLINGTON SONS, a composition by Scott Eyerly that was commissioned by acclaimed bass-baritone David Pittsinger.
Jay Nordlinger on recent performances at Carnegie Hall, the Metropolitan Opera House & David Geffen Hall.
Just as the Met’s debut of Mexican composer Daniel Catan’s FLORENCIA EN EL AMAZONAS (FLORENCE IN THE AMAZON) began the other day, a member of the audience yelled out “Viva la ópera en español!” (“Long live opera in Spanish!”). And that was before a single note of the composer’s lyric, highly accessible and heavy-on-the-Puccini score was played.
At a time when war is on many minds, looking back to 1796, a time when Austria feared war and invasion, is illuminating.