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Title: and so it took forty years?
Review: some scores are best left undiscovered. villa-lobos's attempt at a broadway musical is proof positive that most "serious" composers should stick to what they do best. overinflated, pretentious, and not worthy of having been recorded, this was one of the legendary "lost" unrecorded shows from the recording strike of the late 1940s. how much more worthy would have been recordings of frank loesser's "where's charley?" or kurt weill's "love life". many broadway shows of that era were recorded in truncated form, and call out for fresh recordings; "magdalena" was not one.of course, if youre a show queen, you will have to have it!
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