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And it’s a clumsy one, attempting in the third act to weave aria pauses into a breakneck pace and an abrupt, Orphic turn.

From New York Times • Jun. 26, 2022

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

After the death of their founder the Pythagoreans seem to have gradually blended with the Orphic communities, and the “Orphic life” was the recognised term for a life of purity and self-denial.

From Apollonius of Tyana, the Philosopher-Reformer of the First Century A.D. by Mead, George Robert Stowe