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A Brief Review Of The Flying Dutchman By Richard Wagner
a musical or dramatic performance or social or public event held in the daytime and especially the afternoonpray that whatever your sacrifice may be, it be not that."
Clark therefore concludes that Georgiana would enjoy going to the symphony to hear a performance of the music of Richard Wagner. She goes, in her black cotton dress, looking incongruous against the other women’s opulent gowns in pastels and jewel tones. Yet she is moved much more deeply than any of the women who presumably form the symphony’s regular "crowd." Cather describes each musical piece and the effect it has on Aunt Georgiana; Clark notices, for example, that during "The Flying Dutchman" -- the only piece Georgiana recognized by name -- she has started to move her fingers

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