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Classical Music’s Weirdest Popularizer

Have you ever wondered what Richard Wagner would have looked like in a superhero costume? Or how Ursula Vaughan Williams jived on the dancefloor? Or how good Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov was in bed?   Fifty years ago this month, Ken Russell’s “Lisztomania” was premiered in London. In this film, the most outrageous of the 12 pictures the […]

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