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...technological trick that will ultimately boost telescopes' power even more. Called interferometry, it achieves the precise focus of a truly huge telescope without actually having the thing built. Instead, light is combined from widely separated telescopes--the two Kecks, say, whose observatory building was designed with a basement-level chamber for that purpose, or two or more of the four VLT telescopes in Chile. The system is dauntingly tricky and complex, but its astonishing precision will let astronomers tease out the details of galactic structures and distant solar systems as never before...
...Pines" are interspersed with sharper and more urgent tunes such as "Don't Talk Back" and "Last Hard Bible," countering each other in an anachronistic combination of hillbilly heartache and well-crafted kick-ass sass. The standout track is the album closer. "We're All Gonna Die Someday" reveals Chamber's youthful wisdom with lyrics such as "It hurts down here 'cos we're running out of beer/But we're all gonna die someday." Throughout, however, her vibrant voice retains a fresh, distinctive sound that, while not immediately irresistible, is soulfully unrefined and remarkably vibrant. A- -Yan Fang...
Besides the newsworthy revelation of Lieut. Captain Dimitri Kolesnikov's dying message to his wife recovered last week from the husk of the sunken submarine Kursk--that 23 of the 118 crewmen had survived in an isolated chamber for a while, in contradiction to claims by Russian officials that all had perished within minutes of the accident--there was the matter of writing the message in the first place...
...this freedom to break the silence, even of death, even when--in the depths of our darkest loneliness--we have no clear idea of why we reach out to one another with these frail, perishable chains of words. In the black chamber of the submarine, Kolesnikov noted, "I am writing blindly." Like everyone else...
...Gunther Schuller will be conducting the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra in Sanders Theatre on Sunday, Nov. 26, at 3 pm, in a program of works by Grieg, Vanhal and Dittersdorf, as well as a world premiere by Theodore Antoniou...