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Reiner Torheit
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« on: 08:04:17, 19-10-2007 »
Thus runs the strain of argument in the Leader Column (no less - not for PG the obscurity of the Arts pages) of today's Guardian:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2194604,00.html

The thrust of the short Leader piece is to hope that PG's new opera "Appomattox" reaches the London stage rather quicker than "Satygraha" took (although it fails to mention that "Akhnaten" arrived in London extremely swiftly after its German premiere).

Could it be true that music for the People ought to sound like PG's music?  Surely the Grauniad, of all people, should know?

Does anyone else hear the familiar squeaking of the pen of Martin Kettle behind this paean?
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