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...Sometimes I forget when I'm notating that not everybody hears the music the way I do," says Davis, 37. But hearing it they are these days, and cheering it as well. The Manhattan-based composer is enjoying acclaim for the recent premieres of his two latest works: the concerto, subtitled Maps, performed in Kansas City, and Notes from the Underground, an orchestral piece, in New York City. Two seasons ago, his powerful first opera, X (The Life and Times of Malcolm X), caused a sensation at the New York City Opera, and Davis is now at work...
...related notion holds that popularity is intrinsically vulgar and hence earned, always, by inferior poems. The facts largely argue against this mythology, and the accomplishments of Richard Wilbur, 67, make it look silly. For more than 40 years, Wilbur has written poetry that garnered both critical acclaim and public recognition, including a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award. He has taught at Harvard, Wellesley, Wesleyan and Smith, and generously given foreign authors an English-speaking readership, translating works by, among others, Anna Akhmatova, Jorge Luis Borges, Andrei Voznesensky and Joseph Brodsky. His words have been sung on Broadway...
...undergraduate experience" has confirmed anything, it has reinforced my skepticism about the worth accorded to student input. This University fires the professors we acclaim. It has institutional policies often in direct opposition to those favored by a vast majority of students. Top administrators rarely, if ever, meet undergraduates. Faculty members in large lecture courses have never met most of the students enrolled in the class. The list goes...
Purple Rain was a throbbing mixture of acting and some performing which got some critical acclaim. Under the cherry Moon was a radical shift away from performing into acting. The movie enjoyed (suffered?) a very short run, although Prince and Jerome Benton came off as natural comedians (the "Wrecka Stow" scene was one of the funniest in recent cinematic history...
...then Secretary of State Henry Kissinger won worldwide acclaim for his Middle East "shuttle diplomacy," which resulted in a series of agreements disengaging Israeli and Arab forces in the Sinai desert and the Golan Heights. Today Kissinger holds out little hope that his virtuoso performance can be duplicated by George Shultz...