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Confronted by a vision of hell, does one stand in silent reverence for suffering or praise the spirit that surmounted it? Last week a Dutch audience faced this dilemma at the première of an opera, The Emperor of Atlantis, which was written in a concentration camp by two...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A Gallows Opera | 12/29/1975 | See Source »

The authors turned their nightmare world into a German gothic tale: the Emperor of Atlantis (Baritone Meinard Kraak) has declared a holy war on mankind. Death, overworked, goes on strike. With no one dying, the kingdom is about to burst, and the ruler has to make a deal with Death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A Gallows Opera | 12/29/1975 | See Source »

The Emperor of Atlantis resembles another expressionist work, Kurt Weill's Seven Deadly Sins, but it goes beyond Weill's elegant cynicism. The final chorale, describing death as part of life's "delight and woe," is sung to A Mighty Fortress Is Our God, while the orchestra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A Gallows Opera | 12/29/1975 | See Source »

Last spring Tyner spent part of his five-day Boston tenure giving the audience a preview of his blistering Atlantis album. This time the playing will be more varied. Tyner's supporting staff, traditionally composed of the best music men around, like tenor saxman Azar Lawrence, complement the man who...

Author: By Jim Cramer, | Title: Jazz | 10/2/1975 | See Source »

I never found either my high school principal or cliches terribly insightful, but this metaphor seems strangely applicable to Harvard. Its educational ocean is filled with more than the normal complement of sharks and barracuda, electric eels and suckers: and to most people, just how they will find their place...

Author: By Richard J. Meislin, | Title: Little Fish in a Big Pond | 4/22/1975 | See Source »

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