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Article: Virgin Classics' Fine Revival of `Paul Bunyan'
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- October 30, 1988
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"Paul Bunyan," a homespun American operetta with some unexpected
psychological and sociological overtones, had its first performance
at Columbia University in 1941 and promptly dropped out of sight.
Critical response was not kind-in part, perhaps, because librettist
W.H. Auden and composer Benjamin Britten were British interlopers on
the New York music scene, but also because an operatic work about a
giant lumberjack and his pet blue ox was hard to stage. Britten went
back to England and began work on "Peter Grimes," which established
him as one of the great opera composers of the century.
Revived and lightly revised in the 1970s, "Paul Bunyan" has
waited until now for its first ...
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Article: Paul Bunyan, Babe Finally on Way Home
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March 22, 2002 ;
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... ... heroes has been found. Legendary logger Paul Bunyan and his blue ox, Babe, were recovered ... received a report late Monday morning that Paul Bunyan and his ox were taken from the roof ... traveling through town. At 14 feet tall for Paul Bunyan and 8 feet tall for Babe, the pair ...
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