English National Opera plans to slash wages and jobs after a £5m slash. Its music director believes this would be a betrayal of everything the company stands forIt is probably stating the obvious to say that Mozart’s The Magic Flute,currently being performed by English National Opera, is about the magical power of music. The title is rather a giveaway. Volumes of musical analysis, or psychological tracts and neurological experiments have tried to define this power,but in the end it remains a mystery. Fortunately. Music can soothe and excite, make public the deeply private, or inspire and unite the heart and intellect within a single moment. Despite being totally unintelligible,it is a language that we all can understand.
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Source: theguardian.com