The crowd at the Orpheum Theatre heard two works: Imant Raminsh's The Mystical Bond (Songs of Brotherhood) and Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, Op. 31.
Today Hector Berlioz’s The Damnation of Faust has an almost new resonance, particularly with regard to the phrase “Faustian man”, or the destruction of nature and its artificial...