Nally's extensive program notes provided insights on the program, whose title comes from the opening line of Virgil's "Aeneid," "Arma virumque cano" … "I sing of arms and the man." Nally juxtaposes the Roman epic with Lawrence Ferlinghetti's 1976 "call to poets" and notes the presence of rage as a human impulse that links Aeneas' war stories with the contemporary United States. Various choral pieces in the program …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:55PM on October 14, 2018