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...theatrical background. His grandparents Boris and Bessie Thomashefsky were stars of the Yiddish theater in New York City, and young Michael grew up in a musical household. Boyhood piano lessons were followed at the University of Southern California by studies with pianist John Crown and composer-conductor Ingolf Dahl, a summer stint as an assistant at the Wagner Festival in Bayreuth in 1966, and an appointment as William Steinberg's assistant at the Boston Symphony Orchestra three years later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: HITTING THE HIGH NOTES | 4/1/1996 | See Source »

...Dahl also acknowledged that Yale would probably lose applicants, especially to Harvard. She said she had no way yet to gauge the net gain or loss...

Author: By Leigh S. Salsberg, | Title: Schools Mull Impact of Admit Switch | 10/14/1995 | See Source »

Margit A. Dahl, Yale's admissions director, said the school believes that the early-action system has become "one step in a series of badge-collecting...

Author: By Leigh S. Salsberg, | Title: Schools Mull Impact of Admit Switch | 10/14/1995 | See Source »

...first we felt like Roald Dahl's Charlie,peering through the wrought-iron fence of WillyWonka's Chocolate Factory and dreaming of what laybehind its imposing walls. During the half-hour wewaited at the bike store, no one entered or leftthe building. From the partial view we had intothe upper floor windows, we could discern nomovements inside.B-12...

Author: By Lisa K. Pinsley, | Title: NECCO Philia | 2/16/1995 | See Source »

Film noir is more than a lighting style. It's a seedy, cynical world view: people are motivated by greed, stupidity and sexual avarice. Director John Dahl gets it all right in his mean, hilarious tale of a drifter (Nicolas Cage) mistaken for a contract killer. The title town is off all the moral maps, and so -- deliriously, invigoratingly -- is this lowbrow, low-budget assault...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best Cinema of 1994 | 12/26/1994 | See Source »

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