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Some older recordings make you ask, “How much have we really learned in 50 or 60 years?”

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Dawn on the Mississippi River (New Orleans, March 5, 2018)

Posted on March 11, 2018 by John Marks

I don’t have a “Bucket List.”

That said, if I did, watching the sun rise over the Mississippi River in New Orleans would be a good thing to add to such a list. For some reason, the view made me think of Mussorgsky’s “Dawn on the Moskva River,” from his rarely-performed opera Khovanshchina.

(The link is to a very evocative YouTube slideshow over a USSR Symphony Orchestra performance with Evgeny Svetlanov, conductor.)

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