Word: brief
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...What I'm trying to do is prepare the orchestra for the next millennium," says Salonen, whose initial three-year contract as the orchestra's 10th music director in 73 years began this season. The city's brief classical-music history doesn't bother him at all. "I don't see myself as the savior of the Central European tradition in a backwater," he says. "On the contrary, the relative lack of tradition in L.A. is attractive. Central Europe can be very stuffy...
...ruminating on how the national pastime embodies our darkest heritage in the antiheroic biography Cobb. He hits a new peak in TWO ROOMS, a depiction of a Beirut hostage and his grieving wife that merges harrowing narrative with elegantly poetic, and redemptive, visual and verbal imagery. A brilliant, too-brief off-Broadway staging by James Houghton, starring Jeffrey Hayenga and the unforgettable Laura Esterman, has just closed. The play deserves further productions around the country...
...political wheeler-dealer who was Bill Clinton's surprise choice to be U.S. Trade Representative, Kantor had little experience in the acronymic arcana of GATT and NAFTA and other trade agreements. Yet he has proved a remarkably quick study, in the manner of a crack litigator mastering a complex brief. He is, by training and nature, an aggressive lawyer and lobbyist. Kantor sees himself not as a peacemaker but as a warrior who, as he puts it, "hates to lose." (Those who beat him at tennis have learned to watch out for his flying racquet.) He has represented migrant farmworkers...
...Good News: Last year's shocking loss to RPI ended a brief ECAC experiment of one-game quarterfinals. (In fact, the experiment could be called a one-shot deal.) Before last year, teams played a best-of-three quarterfinal series...
...symphony struck such a resonant chord? The texts, which include a 15th century monastic lament, a mournful folk song about the death of a child and, most movingly, a brief prayer to the Virgin inscribed on the wall of a Gestapo prison by an 18-year-old Polish girl, evoke a sunless world of pain and suffering. The ineffable music, which unfolds seamlessly from small, minimalist melodic motifs, evolves into a soaring Brucknerian cathedral. Hardly the stuff of which gold records are made...