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...first movement depicted King Lear’s descent into madness, with waves of brass and timpani looming over twisting dissonances. Kravitz sang confidently, spanning large intervals with ease, and the orchestra maintained a sense of disturbed panic without drowning out the voice. The movement ended with an unexpected, troubled calm: the orchestral sound suddenly evaporated with a consonant but inconclusive chord of harmonics in the violins...
...Last-minute replacement Julian Kuerti—now in his second season as the BSO’s assistant conductor—led the orchestra in a clean performance of Brahms’s “Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel.” The brass section’s muddled sounds in the opening harmonies set the BSO off to a shaky start. Following the two introductory phrases, Kuerti eased into the set of 25 variations and a fugue, orchestrated by British composer Edmund Rubbra...
...running passage work passed from the bass strings to the violins, and the dark, brooding lines in the brass reflected the programmatic themes of the work. The muted lyrical theme in the strings in the middle of the first movement was sustained especially well and helped the overlapping phrases build to the climatic end of the movement...
...rely on gravity to work. You'll never have to shake it to get it to write, and you can even write with the tip angled up - against the nearest wall at the airport, say, scribbling directions. The top-selling Bullet models - in finishes ranging from blueberry to lacquered brass - have a decidedly sexy aesthetic, but the Trekker model is better suited for travel, with its key-ring cap and handy carabiner and lanyard. The pens have a narrow grip, so they're not for everyday use if you have hand or wrist issues like...
...that the leader of the main opposition party, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, is under house arrest and is barred from participating. But even after locking up a woman whose National League for Democracy won the 1990 elections that the junta then ignored, Burma's ruling brass still appears spooked by the power of the people. "Burma's leaders are clearing the decks of political activists," says Pearson, "before they announce the next round of sham political reforms." Overall, one Burmese exile group based in Thailand estimates that 2,120 Burmese now languish in jail for their...