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...Edition, an unprecedented (and somewhat futile) recording project undertaken by Phillips to present every note the composer penned (even as musicologists discover new ones, each less significant than the previous), still clutters the shelves. Similar ventures by other recording companies add to the heap of re-releases (at last count, the Sony classical catalogue included no less than three different box sets of Mozart re-issues). As the year's hangover subsides, a disquieting question seems inescapable" can we still take Mozart's music seriously...
...impressive but competent, the positive exception being Justin Levitt, who makes the most of the play's hilarious characterization of Emperor Joseph II as a benign fool. More troublesome are the Venticelli, played by Howie Axelrod and Eleanor Kincaid, and the three nobles, Baron von Strack (Alfred di Venturi), Count Orsini-Rosen-berg (Peter Galatin) and Baron von Swieten (Arzhang Kameri). The Venticelli are cold and supercilious while the nobles are earnest and straightforward in their delivery: thoughtful characterization would have thing the other way around. Finally, overacting is a recurring problem with these roles, since minor disputes and even...
Ahead 2-0 in the count, Morgan got a pitch too tempting to take and cranked it well beyond the left field fence to give the Crimson a 2-0 lead...
...This was a good opportunity for our reserves to get some game time," Kleinfelder said. "These are the people we will count on to come off the bench in the stretch, and it was important for them to get some experience...
...upshot: a tally of international terrorist incidents compiled by the State Department fell from a peak of 864 in 1988 to 457 in 1990, the lowest since 1977. The count rose to 557 in 1991, but about half of those occurred during the Persian Gulf war and caused minor damage and few casualties -- and even so, the count was relatively low by the standards...