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A complete archive of reviews of works by Gordon Getty, including performances and recordings.

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La Belle Dame sans Merci, Palm Beach Arts Paper

Greg Stepanich, La Belle Dame sans Merci
Palm Beach Arts Paper

Getty's tonal language here was modern but conservative and evoked the gloom of the poem's famous lines — The sedge has wither'd from the lake/And no birds sing — with slow, stern phrases and the kinds of harmonies that were similar to Prokofiev's, especially when heard back-to-back.

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