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Grief and loathing in Lombardy

17 years ago
Gary Hoffman

DAVID STABLER [The Oregonian, 11 February 2008]
When George Frideric Handel wrote a tune, he wasn’t kidding. His music pours out in a stream of charms, boasts, snorts, bluffs and laments. It’s exquisite stuff — theatrical, fierce, the opposite of aloof.

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