Word: bohs
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...section of the novel, dealing with Weiss's most formative years, is rendered in a mist of Proustian reverie set off by the death of his father. Incidents of incestuous exploration with his sister, her sudden death, his adolescent impotence, his art student's vie-not-so-Bohème, are all presented with a quiet but quivering honesty...
...Zubin was packed off to the Vienna Academy, where $75 a month had to suffice for his teetotaling version of la vie de bohème; a nonsmoker as well as a nondrinker, he lapped up ice cream and orange juice in the cafes while other students had cigarettes and coffee or brandy. He tirelessly went to concerts, played bass in the academy orchestra ("I learned a lot about orchestra psychology"), and gravitated to the conducting classes of Hans Swarowsky. The revered teacher recognized in Mehta a "demoniac conductor" who "had it all." Nevertheless, he put Mehta through the usual...
...more difficult to act the artist. Exactly what is his role, and how should he play it? Should he go to great hair lengths and openly flout middle-class convention at every turn? Or should he simply play it cool, all buttoned down on the outside, la vie de bohème beating away on the inside? Each role carries the built-in penalties of repression-the one by society, the other by self...
...masses who have been left out will have their chance, for the Met will come out to them. This week the company announced plans to give concert versions of La Bohéme, Madame Butterfly and Tosca in New York parks this summer-the first free public performances in its 82-year history. The series of nine performances will have an estimated potential audience of 400,000, more than half as many people as attend the Met's entire regular season...
Basrache's flick of the wrist nullified a fine game by Fitzsimmons, who made 32 saves to McPhee's 41, and exceptional work on defense by the tandem of Charme Scammon and Boh Carr...