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Stravinsky's score weaves the composer's own astringencies through the gentler harmonies of a passel of 18th-century composers.
To see it as such is not only ethically complacent and inevitably very harmful (both to the un-self-censoring subject of desire and to anyone unfortunate enough to come in his or her way), it also denies the complex and often painful astringencies involved in the real experience of desire, and sex.
He follows the line of Mahler and Strauss, adding rhythms and astringencies of his native folk idiom.
 
 
 
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