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...lessons and sang around school. And in the weeks before he fled Hungary, Grove and a handful of classmates sang the first, murderously lovely scene of Don Giovanni in a Budapest recital. Grove can't remember if he took the part of the footman Leporello (who beseeches, "Potessi almeno di qua partir!" [I wish I could escape!]) or the blackguard Don Giovanni (who bellows, "Misiero! attendi se vuio morir!" [Wretch, stay if you would die!]) in the performance. He took the Don's advice...
...then came the death of Princess Di, the response to which was at once overwhelming and bewildering. Here was the loss of someone who was not a hero, a saint or a leader. Reduced to basics, hers was the life of a high-born girl, royally seduced and abandoned, who pleased the observing world by her beauty, gracefulness, kindness and weakness, and by an impressive amount of pluck. Yet when she died, it was as if the heart of everyone dropped in its cage...
...Society For The Preservation Of History markets a high-quality collectible porcelain doll bearing the likeness of the late Princess Diana. In your "Di-ploitation Watch" item [PEOPLE, Nov. 17], you falsely claimed, without ever seeing an actual doll, that we are marketing a "cheesy Franklin Mint knockoff." The fact is our collectible doll is an original design produced by renowned artisans using the highest-quality materials. We did not copy any product of the Franklin Mint, and, in fact, we advertised this doll weeks before that firm came out with its model. Our doll is sold with an unconditional...
Hodgkinson, a professor at the New England Conservatory of Music, opened the program with Dallapiccola's Quaderno Musicale di Annalibera, a set of 11 variations upon a twelve-tone theme that the composer created for his daughter and presented to her on her eighth birthday in 1952. In the pre-concert lecture, Harvard professor John Stewart illuminated, a la First Nights, the history of Dallapiccola's career and discussed points of interest like the Simbolo, a four-note theme derived from the letters in "Bach." As concertmistress Stephanie Misono turned the pages of his score, Hodgkinson breezed through the simplistic...
...DI-PLOITATION WATCH...