Word: credo
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True to the Dunster House Opera Society’s credo that opera can and should be accessible to the general public, the libretto is adapted into English and the action is transported into 1930s America...
...episode, a voice-over by one soldier almost petulantly wonders if noncombatants would ever understand the soldiers' sacrifice: "How could anyone ever know the price paid by soldiers in terror, agony and bloodshed if they'd never been to places like Normandy, Bastogne or Haguenau?" This is the unofficial credo of Brothers. If you weren't there, it is determined to put you there--to hammer you with explosions, jargon and blood until you cry uncle, until at last...
...have much else in common with Eminem, but Helmuth Rilling, like the raunchy rapper, won a Grammy this year. Rilling, artistic director for the Oregon Bach Festival, got his for conducting the festival orchestra and chorus in a recording of Krzysztof Penderecki's Credo, an original work co-commissioned by the festival. That kind of distinguished performance draws students like Matthew Svoboda to the annual classical-music celebration at the University of Oregon in Eugene. "It's a first-class festival with incredible musicians I'd expect to see only in New York, Paris or Los Angeles," says Svoboda...
...Saint Laurent's Mondrian dress to plastic radio bracelets and Star Trek-like chairs - turns the exhibit into an exercise in pop-cultural archaeology, akin to opening a time capsule or poking around your mother's attic. The greatest irony, as this show demonstrates, is that an era whose credo was "forever young" now belongs to a quaint and nostalgic past...
...Schröder's credo is "politics should be all about putting the finger on the sore spot," even if that means antagonizing your friends. Since the youngster from Berlin, like many of her party's rank and file, is an uncompromising conservationist and anti-militarist, the first target of her criticism has not been the political opposition but the top brass of her own party, whom she feels have betrayed the ideals of the past. "Green politics no longer has anything in common with the original platform," she complains...