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Hovahness's Concerto No.8 for Orchestra and his "Prayer of St. Gregory" were accentuated in their grandeur by the presence of their creator. Batonless, the octagenarian composer himself conducted the former work. The orchestra, which seems at its best with the Baroque, carried the piece's modernist Eastern European theme well. Hovahness's Slavic exoticism recalls Mussorgsky and Stravinsky...
...than most serious compositions ever reach. It is at the top of the classical charts in the U.S. and Britain and, amazingly, has risen as high as No. 6 on the British pop charts as well. "I can't believe the fuss is actually about me," says its astonished creator...
Pugliese, who arrived at TIME in 1976, brings a passion for accuracy and considerable creativity to his personal and professional life. He has built two homes from the ground up, including his present one. A lecturer and the creator of maps for hundreds of books, Paul designed the wall-size maps for the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, scheduled to open in Washington this spring. All that is not to mention the more than 1,000 maps he has done for TIME. Small wonder that his car sports customized license plates that read MAP ONE. "When I give lectures," Paul says...
...someone with a devout belief in God, however, the assertion that life "was not designed in a purposeful way" is a rejection of a universal religious truth. Saying that evolutionary history was "blind" and unplanned" contradicts one of the most fundamental elements of faith: the existence of an omnipotent Creator...
...last century, for example, there were leaders of academia in this country who opposed allowing the infiltration of Darwin's ideas into American education, out of a misplaced fear that the theory of natural selection undermined belief in a Creator. And until the dramatic court-room duel between William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow, evolution was still contestable subject matter for the classroom...