"The combination of the sweep and scope of Melville's language, the beauty of the story, the depth of the characters all pushed me into a whole new realm of composing and thinking of what music is onstage."

VOA: special.2010.06.11

We've got a story in which I'm thinking all sorts of thoughts; my mind clearly exists, and yet, for all that, my body does not exist.

在故事里,我正思考着,我的心灵显然是存在着的,但是,我的躯体却不存在了

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It's also interesting that Athens has a very clear tradition of thinking they had kings, and what I think is very telling is the story they give us about how kingship came to an end in Athens.

这很有趣,雅典人有个非常鲜明的传统,认为他们有过国王,他们有个我觉得很生动的故事,描述雅典的王权是如何终结的

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