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‘The Two Fiddlers’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Gerard McBurney
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Extract

The twin banes of opera for children are the simply silly and the pretentiously sentimental: talking down to them and talking down to ourselves. In The Two Fiddlers, Maxwell Davies enthusiastically circumnavigates this Scylla and Charybdis, making a children's opera worth the effort that must be spent on it, and incidentally adding a footnote to the recent triumph of the Symphony.

Type
Research Article
Information
Tempo , Issue 126 , September 1978 , pp. 33 - 35
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1978

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