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From: mmar@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (Mitchell Marks)
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Subject: Re: Tone poems
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Date: Mon, 26-Aug-85 03:00:34 EDT
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[Naw, I don't really believe there's a line-eater.]             really believe there's a line-eater.                                    

Another passage that I always think of as a sunrise is the last section
of the Firebird.
    Surely everyone hears a clear sexual metaphor in the Liebestod.  I think
it's the best and clearest of these, and he does it all with harmonic tension
and resolution -- I'm always surprised at people who are readier to hear
sex in passages of galloping acceleration.
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            -- Mitch Marks @ UChicago 
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