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...Carter ’30 continues to dazzle with a stream of new works. He wrote his first opera two years ago and Yo-Yo Ma ’76 recently premiered his cello concerto with the Chicago Symphony. His intense but accessible modernism is a welcome change from the watered-down simplicity of many of today’s new orchestral works. Symphonia, subtitled Sum fluxae pretium spei (“I am the prize of flowing hope” from 17th-century metaphysical poet Richard Crashaw’s “Bulla”), actually existed...
...movements were written for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the Cleveland Orchestra; Carter worked on them from 1992 to 1996. Although Oliver Knussen and the BBC Orchestra premiered and recorded Symphonia in its entirety on Deutsche Gramophone, the work as a whole had never been played in the U.S. until last week...
...Monadnock Festival Orchestra, under the direction of James Bolle, gave a vigorous and virtuosic performance. The rhythmic difficulty of the work was most visible through concertmaster Ole Bohn’s arm and bow gestures before entrances. An enthusiastic audience greeted the work with a standing ovation, which Carter acknowledged from the stage...
...movie Reality Bites noted Gen X's penchant for instant nostalgia with its recent college grads singing Schoolhouse Rock ditties. This premature sentimentality might explain why That '70s Show, Fox's sweetly frothy sitcom about small-town teens, is a hit among viewers who, in the Carter era, were wearing pj's with footies. (Its median audience age is 31; its characters would be in their early 40s now.) That in turn explains why, last summer, Fox asked the '70s creative team to do the same for the greed decade...
...Jonathan Demme, to make the 1994 video for Bruce Springsteen's Streets of Philadelphia, won an Emmy in 1999 for co-producing A Lesson Before Dying. Demme collapsed after playing in a celebrity basketball game. DIED. CYRUS VANCE, 84, veteran public servant and former Secretary of State for Jimmy Carter; in New York City. Vance also worked in the Johnson Administration, and was credited for warding off a war between Greece and Turkey over Cyprus. Vance is best remembered, however, for quitting the Cabinet in 1980 over Carter's decision to send U.S. troops to rescue hostages in Tehran. DIED...