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...uses the theme of Bach's Musical Offering as the takeoff point for a complex violin concerto that lasts about 35 minutes. Atonal passages mingle freely with tonal ones as the theme is atomized and then reconstructed in reverse; the modern orchestrational device of flutter-tonguing for flutes and brass is complemented by traditionally virtuosic writing for the solo violinist. Gubaidulina, 53, also evokes her Russian predecessors Stravinsky and Prokofiev, most strikingly in a passage of glissandi string harmonics that recalls The Firebird. By Western standards, Offertorium may be tame, but given the governmental restrictions on the stylistic range...
...Lars Johan Werle's opera Animalen, among other events, the multipurpose hall is the new home of the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Minnesota Opera and the Schubert Club, a local recital sponsor. In appearance, it recalls a Victorian men's club, with a generous use of mahogany and brass, both in the spacious lobbies and within its two auditoriums. The seats--between 1,815 and 2,000 in the larger, depending on the configuration of the stage--are a warm shade called terra cotta, and a blue patterned carpet covers most of the floors. Given the prevailing climate...
First--in University Hall, a chortle of glee. If Deans Rotner and Gerrity don't jack up our fee. For Leahy and Steiner and all Black Rock Brass. Think of the forest, and not of the cash. And in U-Hall 4 if you find Michael Spence. Say, "Relax a little, don't be so tense." For if all goes well and you coddle Prez. Bok. A University Chair you will find in your sock. Just think of ole' Roso, your precursor as dean. He gave us the Core, now he's not to be seen...
...view of union leaders, Mondale's defeat is only a temporary setback. "Labor will take a black eye on this," admits Kamber. "But four years from now, when it backs a winner, there will be stories about its amazing comeback." Indeed, the union brass seems eager to make early endorsement an established policy. "I haven't found anybody saying it shouldn't have been done," says Richard Murphy, legislative director of the 650,000-member Service Employees International Union. "I hope we do exactly the same thing next time." The danger, of course, is that the unions...
...spring and go still, they seem to shape themselves into grooves. Their bodies, whitened with traditional Kabuki makeup, can go as stiff as steel beams being hoisted skyward on a cable, as supple and serpentine as a garden stream. When Amagatsu moves diagonally across a stage past two huge brass circles in Jomon Sho, the movement is a piece of modest majesty that sets down a single, perfect line in Sankai Juku's geometry of mystery...