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Cabot House Music Society. Voices, a program of songs and musical theater with Anna Myatt, Roger Marsh, Luna Woolf and Charles McGuire. Features Brecht songs by Weill and Eisler and works by Patrick Lee, Luciano Berio, Georges Aperghis and Roger Marsh. Cabot Lounge...
...trained pair. Now that state-sponsored training has undergone a meltdown in their homeland, there is a question whether this latest pampered pair will be the last of the line for a long time to come. For the honor of runner-up, only Canada's Isabelle Brasseur and Lloyd Eisler could have wrested the silver from the Unified Team's Elena Bechke and Denis Petrov. But two falls by Brasseur dashed their hopes...
PAINTINGS IN THE HERMITAGE by Colin Eisler (Stewart, Tabori & Chang; $85). Catherine the Great started it. She acquired important paintings, and her collection became the nucleus of the Leningrad museum. Velasquez, Rubens, Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Picasso: no visitor has seen all that is pictured here; the book itself amounts to a work...
...have been restless in any culture. It is doubtful, for example, if Brecht ("Wherever I go, they ask me, Spell your name") would have been happy anywhere on earth. Others, like Mann, never really understood the nation they first overpraised, then cursed for being imperfect. Some, like Writer Gerhardt Eisler, were Communists, hypocritical in their horror at the House Un-American Activities Committee. Heilbut's defense of these emigres seems disingenuous: "If Einstein or Thomas and Klaus Mann were back and could observe the Ku Klux Klan in Connecticut or the Moral Majority in New Jersey . . . one doubts...
...SEEING HAND: A TREASURY OF GREAT MASTER DRAWINGS by Colin Eisler. Harper & Row. $29.95. The appreciation of drawings tends to be an extremely private pleasure-with good reason. Easily affected by light and air, sketches by the masters are usually kept locked safely away in museum cellars or, more inaccessible, stashed in private collections. Art Historian Colin Eisler combed the museums and collections of the world before allowing more than 300 illustrations to go public. He includes some of the finest examples of draftsmanship, from the French, German and Italian Renaissance to such moderns as Klee, Mondrian and de Kooning...