Brahms’s Symphonies, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, May 30-31, 1997
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Brahms’s “Gesang der Parzen” (Song of the Fates), written in 1882, uses text from Goethe’s Iphigenia auf Tauris. Iphigenia, saved by Artemis from sacrifice at Aulis, as a priestess of Artemis has...
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The point is named after Francis Brockton, the senior engineer aboard the HMS Plumper, a Royal Navy survey sloop commanded by Captain George Henry Richards. A plumper is something that plunges abruptly...
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