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| | CYGNUS ENSEMBLE: LOVE, DEATH, GUITAR |
 | | The premise of Love, Death, Guitar begins with the easy assertion that the guitar, among all musical instruments, is most associated with love and death (by which I intend the more loaded terms, Eros and Thanatos), and continues with the further observation that plucked strings can be found playing this role all over the world. |
 | | We will try to show that these senses of love and death are still ubiquitous, and even coming to the fore here in the U.S. in works such as the HBO series, Six Feet Under, and in Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill movies. |
 | | The success of the project hinges on the claritiy of the connections made between European, Asian, Middle-eastern, and American (and other) examples, and between older strains and more recent strains as well as contemporary strains of Eros and Thanatos--the kinship of Dowland and Britten, for example. |
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