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The music of Eric Whitacre is a million miles from my current obsession with John Cage. But anyway, here's an interesting LA Times review of his Paradise Lost: Shadows and Wings:
“Paradise Lost” is an elaborate hybrid musical/opera, or “electro-musical,” if you will. It’s a hybrid anime/post-apocalyptic high-concept spectacle about abandoned angels, wings clipped...The musical and dramatic elements of “Paradise Lost” may not be new, but their combination is — "The Magic Flute” meets “La Bohème” meets “West Side Story” meets manga.
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