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By JOHN WARRACK A GLANCE down the Opus List of almost any composer will show at least one work in which wind instruments predominate, even if it is only a miniature piece for one instrument and piano (the inevitable " Pastorale ") or an example of that macabre genre, the morceau de concours. A...

By HAROLD C. SCHONBERG THE long article about Berthold Brecht that I recently read in the Times Literary Supplement did not, if memory serves, mention Dar jasager. This is the libretto of an opera that Kurt Weill set in 1930. The play derives from a Japanese source, and the opera was specifically...