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On Saturday there will be concerts by Dave Mason and 10CC, though unfortunately they will be in separate locations. Former Traffic member Mason, living comfortably due to the success of his latest album Split Coconut, will be at the Music Hall along with his band. For those who prefer the...
Quibbling aside, Lewis's biography of Edith Wharton is important, in the first place, for its insistence on Wharton's full-bodied humanity, displayed in her "capacity for deep and abiding friendship" and her vulnerability to the losses that marked the course of her long and productive life. Edith Wharton...
The white-haired, sunken-eyed professor wandered slowly around his Columbia University classroom leafing through a copy of James Joyce's Dubliners. "He lived at a little distance from his body," Lionel Trilling read aloud from the book. Then, as if discovering Joyce afresh, he fairly glowed with joy...
Nearly 50 years ago, Virginia Woolf compared the situation of a woman composer to that of an actress in Shakespeare's day - hopeless. Among the popular theories offered to explain the mysterious absence of eminent women composers was the biological: men compose symphonies, women compose babies. Sociologists point out...
IN ANOTHER giant step away from the tortured world of Penderecki, the HRO ended its concert with the Second Symphony of Brahms. Although he had written a number of symphonic works, like the two orchestral serenades and the Haydn Variations, Brahms was middle-aged before he published his first symphonies...