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Your story encourages a type of star system in classical music that is deplorable. I could run a season of professional opera on one-tenth of Levine's salary. As long as there is a Met, opera will remain an oddity, suited to a museum.
Since its start in 1975, the Learning From Performers program has brought a range of artistic luminaries 'o Harvard, including playwright Arthur Miller, actor Robert Redford, and classical cellist Mstislav Rostropovich
READING THROUGH Harvard classical Robert Fitzgerald's translation of the Odyssey, Archibald MecLeish was struck by this passage:
The advantages are considerable. The 1.1 million-sq.-ft. colossus is not, to be sure, the kind of building to wrap your heart around. The surfeit of white Vermont marble is a bit intimidating. Yet the building fits politely between the clumsily classical Everett Dirksen Senate Office Building and the...
Thrillers may borrow some tricks from detective stories and some atmosphere from spy fiction, but they are essentially different from both. Such works can trace their lineage directly back through the medieval romances to the classical epic and its archetypal plot: a hero risks his life trying to master overwhelming...