"Modern people have learned all too well how to keep our emotions in check, and to mask them with humor or irony. Music has a singular capacity to unlock those controls and bring us face to face with our raw, uncensored and unattenuated feelings." ~ John Adams "If death comes before I can develop all my artistic faculties, I should probably wish it came later - yet even then I shall be happy. For will it not deliver me from a state of endless suffering?" "Music is the mediator between the spirit and the senses." ~ Ludwig van Beethoven CONCERT PREVIEW for March 6th & 8th, 2018 The TUCSON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA is going to end the season on a very high note, indeed. "Ü-ber Ster-nen muß er woh-nen" (He must dwell beyond the stars!): the 'ODE TO JOY', Beethoven's 9th Symphony. The opening number, on the other hand, 'ON THE TRANSMIGRATION OF SOULS', by John Adams, is a powerful, early attempt to help us heal, in the...
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