Music, not words, moves `King Arthur'

From: The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) | Date: June 14, 1995| Author: | Copyright information

KING ARTHUR

Semi-opera by John Dryden and Henry Purcell, presented by

the Boston Early Music Festival

At: the Emerson Majestic Theatre, last night (repeat

performances tonight, Friday and Saturday nights, and

Sunday afternoon)

Of all the exotic and irrational attempts to bring all of the performing arts together into one form, semi-opera may be the most peculiar.

Although the debate over whether words or music holds primacy has continued for centuries, music always wins because of its direct access to the emotions. For a few years at the end of the 17th century, however, ...

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