... stage chorus to represent the sound of the wind. The graphic phrases for flute and piccolo were used to represent lightning. It is said that such eerie noises of rustling and wind of Verdi must have often been heard in the trees of Sant'Agata (the village where Verdi once lived). The voices of the chorus humming off-stage to imitate the wind were very avant ... tonality together with heavy drums and heavy cymbals and a thunder machine. The Woodwind depicts the pattering rain, cellos and basses rumble, violins race, the chorus adds its weirdly gothic moaning. Then oboes, flutes and violins...

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