October 16, 2019

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Violinist Nicola Benedetti introduced us this morning to a version for her instrument of one of the most-loved soprano arias of all time.  The heart-rending ‘Marietta’s Lied’ is from the opera “Die Tote Stadt” (“The Dead City”), which is by an American composer of Austro-Hungarian birth. Who is he?