Word: clevelandism
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...Cleveland Orchestra spoiled its audience last Wednesday: it filled Symphony Hall with a huge and absolutely tight sound. The BankBoston Celebrity Series concert took place in front of a packed and wide-eyed crowd, visibly impressed by what Christoph von Dohnanyi and his orchestra could...
Baritone Olaf Baer joined the orchestra to sing seven Schubert songs. This is the 200th anniversary of Schubert's death, and everyone is programming his music. Cleveland tried to pick seven crowd-pleasers, but the lied, an intimate genre for solo voice and piano, does not always survive orchestration. The two songs that Brahms transcribed, "Memnon" and "An Schwager Kronos," not surprisingly, were very successful. But Kurt Gillman's "Du Bist Die Ruh" and Felix Mottl's "Standchen" invited exuberance and high volume where restraint and calm would have better served the lilting melodies...
...mammalian brain, billions of these cells must push and shove their way through dense colonies established by earlier migrants. "It's as if the entire population of the East Coast decided to move en masse to the West Coast," marvels Yale University neuroscientist Dr. Pasko Rakic, and marched through Cleveland, Chicago and Denver to get there...
...heating and air conditioning and formerly owned the Los Angeles Rams, got the Colts in a 1972 franchise swap with Rams owner Carroll Rosenbloom. By taking his team to Indianapolis in March of 1984, Irsay kicked off the modern wave of NFL team relocations, which has seen teams from Cleveland, St. Louis, Los Angeles and Oakland jump to other cities for more money. In a desperate attempt to prevent the Colts from leaving, the Maryland House voted to give Baltimore the power to take over the team through eminent domain. But by the time the city sent Irsay a telegram...
...Cleveland Browns did not remain in Cleveland. Tiger Woods did not remain an amateur golfer. Mike Tyson did not beat Evander Holyfield. The Chicago Bulls did not lose the N.B.A. championship. The New York Yankees did not not win the World Series...