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From: Opera News
Date: 20080201
Author:Rauch, Rudolph S

Deems Taylor: Selected Writings Selected and annotated by James A. Pegolotti Routledge, 248pp., $95

Imagine the Met hiring a music critic to write an opera. In 1925, it did just that, commissioning Deems Taylor, who had served for four years as critic for The New York World. Taylor's The King's Henchman, with a libretto by poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, had its premiere in 1927 and was successful enough to warrant a second commission - Peter Ibbetson, first given in 1931. Concurrent with his composing career, Taylor contributed monthly articles to Vanity Fair at a time when it carried such ...

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