Revisiting "The Prairie".(The Talk of the Town)(Lukas Foss attends the Brooklyn Philharmonic's rehearsal)

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 23-JUL-07

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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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