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Lukas Foss, the composer, turns eighty-five in August, and his hearing is not what it used to be, but when he attended a rehearsal the other day by the Brooklyn Philharmonic of his choral work "The Prairie" he listened attentively, sitting very upright in a hard-backed chair, nodding precisely in time to the music. It had been a decade since Foss had last heard an orchestra play the piece, and sixty-three years since "The Prairie," which is based on a poem by Carl Sandburg, had its...
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