January 3, 2020

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This morning, we have another question about music connected to Greek mythology. Earlier, we played a symphonic poem by Saint-Saens illustrating the story of Hercules when he served as a slave to the Lydian queen, Omphale.  Hercules was forced to wear women’s clothes.  And, according to this legend, he was assigned the task of working at what kind of machine?