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Article: `Secret Garden,' in a Woman's Voice; Composer Lucy Simon Blossoms on Broadway
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- The Washington Post
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- December 26, 1992
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Picture Chopin writing music, and he's sitting at a piano.
Think Bach or Handel, and harpsichords come to mind. Great male
composers, great traditional instruments.
Now meet Lucy Simon, the not-as-well-known female composer of
the much-praised score for "The Secret Garden," the Broadway musical
that opens at the Kennedy Center Opera House tonight and runs
through Jan. 31. No pianofortes in her imagination. No
deep-throated cellos or tubas either.
What fires Simon's artistry?
Her lush soprano voice.
Not that she doesn't have all the appropriate accoutrements of
the contemporary composer at her disposal - a synthesizer, a grand
piano, an eight-track digital recorder - in her airy ...