Word: eclecticism
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Henze's score displays the composer's familiar mastery of a variety of musical idioms, from a seductive rooftop serenade to a dry Stravinskian neoclassicism that accompanies the cat's pompous posturings. The delightful storybook production by Charles Ludlam, founder of New York's Ridiculous Theatrical Company, turns the opera...
Keillor learned to harmonize when he was a boy singing hymns with his family, and he does a lot of singing on the show. Butch Thompson, who plays clarinet and barroom piano, and Peter Ostroushko, who plays fiddle, guitar and mandolin, are regulars on the show, and Atkins, Emmylou Harris...
Friday is eclectic enough to agree with most of these views. "I've been through all the literature, and I find it all illuminating," she says. To her, the feminist view is the most urgent because the ancient male structures that ward off jealousy are crumbling. "Men have traditionally married...
Lang has long since moved on from checkers to American technology, which he hustles lucratively in some 45 foreign countries. But he retains his devotion to education, no longer as a recipient but as a formidable giver. "It's what I do for fun," he chuckles. Three weeks ago, the...
(4 of 8) Canberra's newish national museum has an eclectic permanent collection, mixing exhibits that tell bits of the story so far. There are galleries devoted to indigenous peoples, British settlement, immigration, and 1960s suburbia - where you will find a display recreating the kitchen-and-backyard idyll that nurtured...