... special. The ex pected arguments happen public and private morality; compromise or action etc. The characters all seem to speak long, perfectly constructed paragraphs, all commas show ing. Peter Copley and Ian McCulloch are defeated by the prose, and ...

... admirers. Though Verdi's operatic treatment of the Messa da Requiem is now accepted as an expression of true faith--a man speaking in the language he knows, and thus being completely true to himself--there are still a number of people who find the nervous ...