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But the most important thing — an Orphic struggle if ever there was one — was not to look back.
From Washington Post • Nov. 17, 2021
Aucoin first explored the subject in a 2014 piece for countertenor, violin and orchestra called “The Orphic Moment.”
From Seattle Times • Jan. 29, 2020
Red Hen Press: The Figure of Orpheus in Poetry and Performance Contemporary poems on the Orphic theme, plus pianist Paul Barnes performs his solo-piano transcription of Philip Glass’ “Orphée” symphony.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 26, 2019
The music is bright as the young lovers leave the stage in an Orphic apotheosis.
From New York Times • Jan. 23, 2018
The Orphic poet describes Persephone as "the life and the death of mortals," and as being the mother of Eubuleus or Bacchus by an ineffable intercourse with Jupiter.
From The Eleusinian Mysteries and Rites by Wright, Dudley
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
