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...Levine, conductor; RCA, $6.98). There appears to be little that James Levine, 31, cannot do, except perhaps play Scott Joplin on the tuba. The remarkable new music director of the Metropolitan Opera already has several superlative operatic recordings to his credit (notably / Vespri Siciliani on RCA and Joan of Arc on Angel). This version of Mahler's Fourth, a genial pastoral masterpiece, has a flowing line rarely matched in current interpretations and an intimacy that, comes close to Bruno Walter's incomparable recording of the 1940s. The formidable Chicago Symphony sounds somewhat more relaxed than it often does...
...have trouble making a living. But I never worried." In the 15 years following his release from camp, besides working for that Moscow medical publishing house, Dolgun translated many English-language scientific books into Russian. In camp, he also tried his hand as an arc welder, a copper miner, a lock smith and an electrician. "Coming back to my own country should have been the easiest thing for me," Dolgun says...
...Orote Point, the site of an abandoned Japanese airbase from World War II. The mammoth refugee complex bulged with 40,000 people. The air is constantly filled with red dust kicked up by the bulldozers grinding away at the remaining tree stumps and brambles. At night, strands of arc lights create hard patches of brightness among the heavy-canvas tents...
...short, with rounded muscles and the pale face of a man made up permanently as Petrouchka. Yet when he launches his perfectly arched body into the arc of one of his improbably sustained leaps-high, light, the leg beats blurring precision-he transcends the limits of physique and, it sometimes seems, those of gravity itself. If one goes by the gasps in the theater or the ecstasies of the critics, such moments turn Mikhail Baryshnikov, if not into a minor god, then into a major sorcerer...
...running at a frantic pace. "Angel loves to ride," says Matos. "He'll travel anywhere." On Sundays Cordero often flies to California to race, returning to ride on Monday in New York. In 1973 he commuted to Paris one Sunday to ride in the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe. The way he has been racing this year, they should bring the Arc...