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John Tavener Flood of Beauty, Barbican Centre, London

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2015

David Lee
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‘The East is a career’, states Mr Coningsby somewhat laconically to Lord Henry Sydney in Benjamin Disraeli's 1847 novel Tancred. This line was (perhaps more famously) employed as an epigram by Edward Said in his Orientalism, which made a prescient and penetrating historical critique of the West's portrayal of Asian and Middle Eastern cultures as exotic ‘others’.

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FIRST PERFORMANCES
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Tempo , Volume 69 , Issue 272 , April 2015 , pp. 62 - 63
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2015 

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References

1 Comments from John Allinson's review in The Telegraph 29 September 2014.

2 For a useful discussion of this movement, see Taruskin, Richard, ‘Sacred Entertainments’, Cambridge Opera Journal, 15/2 (2003), pp. 109–26CrossRefGoogle Scholar, here pp. 115–16.