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2008-01-02 09:34:24 UTC
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'It was on Mount Carmel that Elijah worsted the priests of Baal. I
suspect they were a far more decent lot than the Parisian mob that
loaded the tumbrils on their way to "La veuve", that tireless
guillotine so omnivorous in its tastes that it demanded heads attached
to any political persuasion, those of any religious devotee, and
ultimately a spinkling of mobsters for good value. So Carmelite nuns
had to go the way of much French flesh at the merciless end of the
Eighteenth Century. It is a telling moment at the start of this joint
Amsterdam-Milan production that Parisians mass on stage during the
prelude, symbolically baying already for blood.'
- Robert Anderson writing in today's Music & Vision magazine
'It was on Mount Carmel that Elijah worsted the priests of Baal. I
suspect they were a far more decent lot than the Parisian mob that
loaded the tumbrils on their way to "La veuve", that tireless
guillotine so omnivorous in its tastes that it demanded heads attached
to any political persuasion, those of any religious devotee, and
ultimately a spinkling of mobsters for good value. So Carmelite nuns
had to go the way of much French flesh at the merciless end of the
Eighteenth Century. It is a telling moment at the start of this joint
Amsterdam-Milan production that Parisians mass on stage during the
prelude, symbolically baying already for blood.'
- Robert Anderson writing in today's Music & Vision magazine