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A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler
A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler

The Composer is Dead

November 10, 2019
Bennelong Point, Sydney NSW 2000, Australia

Don’t dream of not bringing the kids for this whodunit in which, we are told, the whole orchestra is a suspect. Text by Lemony Snicket, whose cyanide whimsy verbal children adore. Music by Nathaniel Stookey, as yet unknown to us. Can he compete with Sergei (Peter and the Wolf) Prokofiev? Benjamin (A Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra) Britten? Raphael (The Travels of Babar) Mostel, son of Zero? Here’s hoping he can. —M.G.