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...done. Or either cellist initiating, as Ma has, an ambitious series of six hour-long films inspired by Bach's six Suites for Unaccompanied Cello, involving collaborators as diverse as movie director Atom Egoyan, modern-dance choreographer Mark Morris, ice dancers Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean and landscape architect Julie Moir Messervy. The films, to be shown on PBS starting in early April (following last month's release on CD of Ma's new recordings of the suites on Sony Classical), are only fitfully successful--stunts, one could argue. But their very ambition, their willingness to court failure, ought...
...documenting the collaborative process as well as its result. The pairing with choreographer Morris (for the third suite) is particularly inspired. Others are more frustrating, with Ma either not quite connecting with his partners or his partners not quite connecting to Bach or, in the case of the landscape architect (the first suite), the creative process being stymied by forces outside the artists' control (it turns out you need a lot of money and a lot of people to cooperate if you want to build a big public garden in Boston, even a Bach-based one). As for the Torvill...
...Lodge--Designed by Stanford White, famous architect of the Gilded Age, this is the only B&B in the mansion district. Though decidedly smaller than the mansions, this charming masterpiece matches their elegance with its gables and Gothic turret...
...American painters, sculptors and architects still defined themselves largely in terms of European models, whether of "traditional" art or of Modernism. But the decade also saw the emergence of a genius of American design who was perhaps the greatest architect of the century: Frank Lloyd Wright. The decade's supreme collective artifact, in steel and stone, was, of course, Manhattan itself, with its immense towers--Chrysler, Empire State and the rest--rising like blasts of congealed and shining energy from the bedrock, a spectacle of Promethean ambition and daring...
There are several casual links. The first is Alexander Yakovlev, known as the architect of glasnost and perestroika, and Gorbachev's chief adviser. He had been in charge of re-imposing the Stalinist ideology on the Czechs after the Soviet invasion, finding it in his words, "one of the most horrible things I've had to do." His own idea of communism changed then, as he could not argue against the far more timely ideas of Dubcek's people...