In other opera news, the Los Angeles Times committed a howler with respect to Die Frau ohne Schatten--another Strauss opera.* In other opera news, the Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times Morning daily newspaper. Established in 1881, it was purchased and incorporated in 1884 by Harrison Gray Otis (1837–1917) under The Times-Mirror Co. (the hyphen was later dropped from the name). committed a howler with respect to Die Frau ohne Schatten--another Strauss opera. The paper's music critic, Mark Swed, had called this opera "an incomparably glorious and goofy prolife paean Paean (pē`ən), Paean was an epithet for Apollo, the healer. The paean, a hymn of praise to Apollo and often to other gods, was sung as a prayer for safety or deliverance at battles and other important occasions. ." (He meant that it celebrates procreation PROCREATION. The generation of children; it is an act authorized by the law of nature: one of the principal ends of marriage is the procreation of children. Inst. tit. 2, in pr. .) An on-the-ball editor at the L.A. Times changed "pro-life" to "anti-abortion"--and there ensued two hilarious corrections. Truth is, Die Frau features the Voices of Unborn Children. Those meaningless blobs of protoplasm protoplasm, term once used for the fundamental material of which all living things were thought to be composed. It was studied by a number of early scientists, especially by Félix Dujardin, J. E. Purkinje, M. J. S. actually sing. So the "anti-abortion" label--it just may fit. |
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