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...AUTUMN OF THE PATRIARCH by Gabriel Garcia Marquéz. The author of the masterly One Hundred Years of Solitude (1970) imagines a mythic despot in a fictitious South American country and creates a Kafkaesque saga with a Latin beat...
...Beautiful autumn in New York! Mort Fine is doing a great job on Dave Wolf's rewrite. Shooting starts soon. Director arrives tomorrow. Cornelia is looking forward to meeting...
...concert opened with an old warhorse, "Autumn" from Vivaldi's The Seasons, which, as interpreted on Saturday night, justified its popularity. The piece featured Shumsky as violin soloist and conductor. The orchestra was extremely cut down, and resembled a sixteen piece Baroquesized chamber ensemble. The choice of music provided an excellent vehicle for Shumsky's awe-inspiring technical capability and his power to elicit clean, solid tone. The accompaniment by the chamber ensemble, especially in the final Allegro, had a shimmering, airy quality--one that marks a thoughtful interpretation of Italian Baroque music. Michael Curry, in particular, carried the obbligato...
...AUTUMN of the Patriarch, the theme is once again solitude, this time that of the dictator of a mythical Latin American nation, who simply will not die: he measures his age by the appearances of Haley's Comet. In fact, he is so reclusive, old and omnipotent that the stages of his decline loom like the death...
Linked to the Patriarch's slipping are the tropics continually decaying: dusty palms, the band playing on Sundays in the park, the abandoned American cruiser rusting at its dock. The brilliant fantasy of Garcia Marquez's details exorcizes tropical nostalgia, and makes The Autumn of the Patriarch the rarest novel to appear this year...