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...first movement. Some of the running notes in the woodwinds were swallowed in the playful dialogue of the virtuosic movement. But Levine successfully led the orchestra in a crowd-pleasing, toe-tapping performance of the symphony’s last movement.In a dramatic shift from triumphant fanfare to dark lyricism, the BSO began Mozart’s famous Symphony No. 40 in G minor. With a sense of mournful yearning, the strings stressed the beginnings of the motific two-note slurs in the opening melody. The first movement tended to drag, but Levine was able to maintain the lyrical drama...
...Despite the terrorists' intentions, it's unlikely that Saturday night's murders will derail the peace process. The communal will to avoid a return to the dark days of the Troubles is simply too strong. Yet, until Saturday night, there had been no major terrorist incident to try the collective will of Northern Ireland's most recent power-sharing executive. With the contentious issue of security at the top of the political agenda once again, the cracks in Northern Ireland's fractious devolved government may widen even further...
...head of Northern Ireland's police force revealed that the threat of a terrorist attack currently stands at its highest level in seven years. But that's not why Kennedy's gong has proved controversial. During the 30 years of the Troubles and in the centuries that proceeded this dark period of history and even since some kind of stability has been achieved in the region, the status and politics of Northern Ireland have always been capable of dividing neighbors and friends, much less politicians. "Edward Kennedy may never have said outwardly he supported the [Irish Republican terror group...
...were painfully authentic and for all their beauty, threatened to deprive all present of any glimpse of hope had it not been followed with Dmitri Yanov-Yanovsky’s “Night Music: Voice in the Leaves.” A piece of chamber music at times dark but mostly exuberant, it was commissioned in 2000 for the Silk Road Ensemble, who performed it here.Bhabha recalled his inspiration for “Witness”: a Somalian exile who, upon landing in prison, remarked “I have all the time in the world to remember every...
...fact that a change in routine space, or a moment of disruption, can remind us the otherwise-overlooked surrounding environment,” Yuan said. “That’s why I did a space installation.”Yuan used black yarn to create dark silhouettes of chairs, offset by a white canvas. The organic nature and familiarity of the yarn evokes an intimate nostalgia. Hugging Yuan’s work—literally, as the two elements are joined by black tape—is a clock and picture frames created by Martin. The clock?...