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Epic proportions: responding to the darkest days of World War II with a burst of patriotic fervor, Seigei Prokofiev composed his grandest opera War and Peace. Laurel E. Fay tells how a masterpiece was born.
"And suddenly the sequence of these thoughts broke off, and Prince Andrei heard (without knowing whether it was a delusion or reality) a soft whispering voice incessantly and rhythmically repeating `piti-piti-piti' and then `ti-ti,' and then again `piti-piti-piti,' and `ti-ti' once more. At the same time, he felt that above his face, above the very middle of it, some strange airy structure was being erected out of slender needles or splinters, to the sound of this whispered music."
Thus does Leo Tolstoy, in his masterpiece, War and Peace, describe Prince Andrei Bolkonsky as he lies in bed, mortally wounded and delirious, at the moment when his former betrothed, ...
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