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From: The Topeka Capital-Journal
Date: 20011004
Author:Capital-Journal
No minor gift
Aldous Huxley, renowned novelist and essayist (his best-known work being "Brave New World," where he warns of the dangers of dehumanization in a scientific age), once stated that "After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." This was certainly never more true, on both counts, than the evening of Saturday, Sept. 22, when the Topeka Symphony Orchestra, with maestro John Strickler conducting, opened its new season at Washburn University's beautiful White Concert Hall. Bravo!
The evening's phenomenal performance began with Arvo Part's "Fratres," ...
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