Word: asceticism
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The fastest-rising minimalist composer-and potentially the most influential of all-is John Adams, a New Englander who now lives in San Francisco, where he is composer in residence with the San Francisco Symphony. Adams' music represents less of a conscious break with the past than either Reich...
Wagner's Festspielhaus is, as usual, in transition. During its early years, it was the physical realization of Wagner's artistic vision: a theater built to his own specifications where his revolutionary music dramas could be given their fullest expression. After Wagner's death in 1883, his...
DIED. Mohammed Seddik Benyahia, 50, Algeria's astute Foreign Minister and a key negotiatior in the release of the 52 Americans held hostage by Iran; in a plane crash under mysterious circumstances while on a peace-seeking mission to end the Iraq-Iran war (see WORLD); near the Iran...
NONE OF THE PIECES are without merit. Even the weakest essay, a biographical essay of Johnny Appleseed cozily entitled "The Mushpan Man," though a sort of Readers Digest version of the weird ascetic's life, has its strengths. Most notably, it recalls to mind a forgotten geography of places with...
Senior Paula Newnham ran the most dramatic race of the afternoon in the grueling 3000 Meter event. Competing despite a case of the flu, the ascetic Britisher passed BU's Kathy Boyle in the middle of the fifteen-lap race, but started her final lap kick too early and then...