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The Salzburg Festival opens in search of elusive peace
An employee sorts fabrics in the sewing room of the Salzburg Festival in Salzburg on June 23, 2021. Many of opera s most celebrated voices have soared and resonated in its highly acclaimed acoustics, yet the creation of the historic auditorium at the Salzburg Festival was a tall order 60 years ago. ALEX HALADA / AFP
by Joshua Barone
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- What is peace? a singer asks in Latin at the start of Klaus Hubers Quod Est Pax? The orchestra responds with a wandering, spectral sound that underscores the question, as it is asked again and considered from different angles, until the instruments erupt in a disorderly mass as if to answer: Peace is not a pleasant tune.
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This is not a normal Hollywood Bowl summer.
No, I am not referring to our convoluted attempts to extricate ourselves from the pandemic. Attending the Bowl is, thus far, surprisingly as it has always been. All are welcome. The weather is fine. With restrictions removed, the simple pleasures of carefree outdoor concertgoing we had stopped taking for granted are newly granted no matter, for the moment, the sudden COVID-19 surge in L.A. County.
What
is strikingly different this summer concerns the bread-and-butter weekday Los Angeles Philharmonic concerts. One predicted consequence of the pandemic has been that the arts would necessarily become more local. For reasons economic and environmental, “travel” is an increasingly dirty word.
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