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Music
Adler, Lawrence | April 3, 1929 issue

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Among the four novelties presented this season by the Metropolitan, not the least provocative and stimulating in effect is the latest work of Ildebrando Pizzetti. For this latter-day Italian is among those who would purge opera of its dross and garniture, and who apparently has molded his procedure according to the ancient Greek formulas as well as the classic Italian opera that flourished in the days of Monteverdi. Moreover, the play itself gathers such momentum that the music is all but forgotten, and we find ourselves paradoxically conscious but at the same time almost unaware of its existence.

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MUSIC; PIZZETTI, Ildebrando; CONCERTS; DRAMA; PLAY; PERFORMING arts
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