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...subtitle, America's Magic Mountain, refers to Thomas Mann's novel of a sanatorium as microcosm. Fair enough; this lively history reflects a galaxy of medical and literary incidents. The cast is worth the entrance fee: W. Somerset Maugham and Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walker Percy and Bela Bartok, and even Gerald and Sara Murphy, the '20s couple who decided that living well was the best revenge. They all had one thing in common: tuberculosis, and the refuge in upstate New York offered the promise of recovery. Sometimes it was illusory. Bartok flourished at Saranac but later succumbed to the disease...
...Pulitzer Prize for Music and should have won. The concerto, although on a smaller, less ambitious scale, is typically eclectic in its welding of disparate musical materials into a distinctive, stylish whole. There is a vigorous first movement, which tips its hat to the opening of the Bartok Second Violin Concerto, a haunting, elegaic slow movement inspired by a mournful tune Bolcom heard whistled on the New York City subway and a riotous finale that is an homage to the late jazz fiddler Joe Venuti. Bright and accessible, the concerto is steeped in a popular idiom. "You don't have...
...Violin and Cello, Op. 7 (Jerry Grossman, cello; Daniel Phillips, violin; Nonesuch). Except for the Hary Janos Suite and perhaps the choral Psalmus Hungaricus, Zoltan Kodaly's music is not much heard today, only 16 years after his death. It is his contemporary, friend and colleague, Bela Bartok, who seems to have won the Hungarian seat in the 20th century pantheon of great composers. But Kodaly's music, while less frankly adventurous than Bartok's, is just as redolent of the Magyar spirit, and these two works display it well. The fiery Duo (1914), full of rich and varied strong...
...easier to spot than originality. This year's crowds chuckled every time barking was heard offstage. Canines figured in nine of the plays, from the howling hounds of hell in Timothy Mason's In a Northern Landscape to the title creature in Patrick Tovatt's Bartok As Dog. Feminism, incest and home cooking were other recurrent themes. But on half a dozen occasions one could hear distinctive voices rising above the collective murmur-and, in Kathleen Tolan's A Weekend Near Madison, the unmistakable cry of an infant...
Steve Martin's Best Show Ever (NBC). A well-turned hour of live, zoned-out comedy, which featured everything from Belushi to Bartok and raised the question, "Did dinosaurs build Stonehenge...