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It's not a political revolution like 1776, it's more like the French Revolution of 1789 or, I think, really close to Mao's second revolution -- the Cultural Revolution. By that, I mean it's holistic.

By Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim Reporting from Troy, N.Y. The opera opened with amplified breathing: gasps, hisses, labored inhalations. A string quartet introduced spidery harmonics that ...