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Symphony of Psalms-danced to Stravinsky's score of the same name against a huge backdrop of Persian rugs-was inspired by a boyhood memory. "There was a Russian Orthodox church in Prague that was always closed," recalls Kylian, "but we could peek through a hole in the door and see that it was full of red rugs and religious flags." That image stayed with him when he was working on the piece, immersing himself in Stravinsky, who was deeply influenced by Russian Orthodoxy at the time he wrote the music...
...signatures are part of the self-characterization. Formidable, hatchet-wielding Carry Nation styled herself "Home Defender." The last survivor of the outlaw Dalton gang scrawled "The Compliments of Emmett Dalton," covering all occasions. General George Patton in pearl-handled regalia penned a cloying confection about his boyhood church...
Alas for his peace and quiet, he has a boyhood chum named Stoltz, a hustler determined to remobilize his old pal. He personally dices vegetables in order to provide Oblomov with an energizing diet...
TWELVE YEARS: AN AMERICAN BOYHOOD IN EAST GERMANY by Joel Agee
...eerie prefigurement of his own condition, Agee's pet magpie is one day besieged by hundreds of wild members of its species outside the window. After Agee puts his bird out to join them, it is pecked to death. But there are lyric moments in this boyhood as well: slingshot escapades, fishing trips, and cowboys-and-Indians in abandoned Nazi foxholes. But that world ends with puberty...