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MP3 Clarinetist Michele Zukovsky - Los Angeles Philharmonic Chamber - A Soldiers Tale With John Houseman
11 MP3 Songs
CLASSICAL: Orchestral, CLASSICAL: Contemporary
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The story of Faust, the man who sold his soul to the devil in exchange for riches, power, youth wisdom - the legend takes various forms - strikes resonances in every heart. Underlying it is the Biblical text, "What shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?" In real life, it is not so much a matter of gaining "the whole world" as of the day-to-day decisions when we are tempted to compromise between ideals and ease or expediency - to do something that instinct says is not quite right for the sake of quick reward. Stravinsky''s lifelike Faust - the Soldier in ''The Soldier''s Tale'' - is closer to our everyday experience than the heroic Faust of Marlowe and Goethe. He is not vastly ambitious. He is not faced with one tremendous decision - to barter his fiddle, to have a go at winning the ''Princess'', to gamble away his remaining cash, to cross a forbidden frontier and see his mother again - almost casually. He gets good advice (Narrator) and gets bad advice (Devil). He gets cheated. It seems almost unfair that, at the end, the Devil wins.
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