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Radical Modernism, Operatic Failure, and Louis Riel’s Challenge to Reconciliation
- University of Toronto Quarterly
- University of Toronto Press
- Volume 87, Number 4, Fall 2018
- pp. 22-28
- Article
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ABSTRACT:
This article contextualizes the dissonant modernist musical language Harry Somers employed for Louis Riel in relation to the internationalist avant-garde of the mid-twentieth century, with its complex political ramifications, and considers the suitability of the opera’s resultant musical-aesthetic challenge to listeners as a reflection of the conflictual and dissident elements of its subject.