Indecent exposure

Classical music has thrived on the erotic impulse, but a new work by Louis Andriessen still breaks sexual taboos, says Marshall Marcus'Your lips, O my spouse, drip as the honeycomb, honey and milk are under your tongue, and the fragrance of your garments is like the fragrance of Lebanon". This 3,000-year-old poetry from the Song of Songs reminds us that the worlds of words, music and sex are – forgive the phrase – old bedfellows. Plato may have railed against allowing musical harmony to be t...

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