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When Giacomo Puccini received an offer from Vienna "to write an opera - yes: similar to Der Rosenkavalier

With Julien Bertheau

in Pablo Casals' words

which resulted in numerous innovative and often surprising textural and sound effects

Now war reigns as the wrathful Beasts seek to destroy the invaders

Flo Simpson ("Monster") and a special guest appearance from Sticky Fingaz on DeSean SuperStar's "Love Of My Life

Pollyanna McIntosh (The Woman)

is also an earlier

Fletcher Tucker's Unlit Trail is a record of ritual

which launches the ensemble's 30th anniversary season

" bandleader Jake Berglove reflects

Various artists musically interpret poems from "The Fall of America: Poems of these States 1965-1971" on this 50th Anniversary Tribute to Allen Ginsberg's The Fall of America