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...York Philharmonic opens its subscription season this week under Conductor Zubin Mehta, it does so with an eagerly sound. Reich orchestral premiere: Tehillim, an infectious, high-spirited laudation set to Hebrew psalms, which begins with the sound of two hands clapping and ends in a full-throated blaze of hallelujahs. For both Reich and the style of which he is a leading representative, the concert will be a cause of celebration. Minimalism, a joyous, exciting-and sometimes maddening-amalgam of influences as disparate as African drumming, the Balinese gamelan and new wave rock, has come uptown at last...
...night the moon makes a perfect crescent, cradling a star between its points like an Arab flag. At 2 a.m. Israeli jets fly low over the hotel, creating astonishing booms. The ears ring, stunned. In the black sky two sulfurous flares glow sickly yellow, blaze momentarily, then disappear before an orange spray of machine-gun bullets...
Overhead, arcing tiers of lights blaze down on a few scattered folding chairs and an upright piano with a high sounding board. But the only significant illumination in Good is internal; this is a drama that takes place entirely inside one man's mind...
Nicholson watched men dive into the burning waters with life jackets to rescue their comrades. Helicopters ignored the fire and smoke to hoist men out. Spotting life rafts drifting back into the blaze around the Sir Galahad, four helicopter pilots flew behind the vessel and turned their aircraft into gigantic fans: flying low, they used the downdraft of their rotor blades to push the rubber rafts to the safety of the beach. Ashore, all was chaos as casualties were brought to a makeshift field hospital and then flown by a continuous helicopter shuttle to the main British medical center...
...number of factors helped keep casualties low. The fires occurred at an hour when people were waking up and when daylight offered visibility. Also, the blaze burned from the roofs downward, affording precious extra seconds for people to escape. Perhaps most important was the selfless heroism of residents who pounded on the doors of sleeping neighbors before fleeing. One additional stroke of luck: the winds subsided at midmorning, giving fire fighters a chance to contain the advancing flames...