Garnet bracelet

Author: (Russia) Kuprin, translated by Lan Yingnian and others
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Publish Date: 2002-07-01
Features: The intermission between Act III and Act IV has ended. The bandmaster Ivan Ivanovich von Hayekendorff has just conducted the most captivating part of the overture, which strikingly depicts the Jews in Babylonian captivity weeping bitterly. Ivan Ivanovich is fond of scripts that feature fugues played throughout with lingering sorrow. During the performance, the flute wails in a heart-wrenching lament, intertwined with the oboe's moving cries, while the trombone moans mercilessly, the Turkish drum's deep groans drown out all other sounds. As the musicians, after taking the cacophony to its peak, prepare to put down their instruments, they cast a glance filled with gloomy despair at the bandmaster.