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...Nightingale,' the second ballet in the series and a world-premiere, is the most conceptually interesting of the pieces. It is the only one that succeeds in transporting the audience to another world, magical and captivating. The title character (Adrianna Suarez) sings only for her Emperor (Paul Thrussell) and is forced to leave when he finds a Mechanical Nightingale (Pollyana Ribeiro) to replace her. But the new bird eventually breaks down, and the prince is broken-hearted and alone...
...superb, Lucinda Hughey's choreography severely drags 'The Nightengale' down. Moments between Thrussell and Suarez let the piece lapse as the choreography merely bores the audience. No doubt, blame also belongs to Thrussell's performance, a real sleeper compared to Suarez's. Showing power or mystery as the Emperor, he has cold precision of a machine, a charm already claimed by the Mechanical Nightengale...
...emperor has no clothes. The Progressive Undergraduate Council Coalition (PUCC), whose highly touted agenda was to retake the Council on a platform of political action, proved its impotence in failing to get its own leadership elected as representatives...
Enter the mercurial maestro Carlos Kleiber, with an official discography that can almost be counted on both hands and canceled projects numbering at least twice as many. One can only imagine what might have come of a recording of Beethoven's "Emperor" Concerto with Kleiber and the late Arturo Michelangeli, had it not been aborted at the first rehearsal. Granted, bootleg recordings of his rare concert appearances have kept more than one Italian label busy, but his extreme reluctance to record has inevitably elicited comparisons with Sergiu Celibidache, well-known for his remark that listening to recordings is much like...
...propriety of the use of the atom bomb to bring about the surrender of the Japanese will be debated endlessly. But one thing is clear: we encountered no resistance as occupiers because the Japanese, a people of great discipline and national pride, responded to the dictates of their Emperor. Had the Emperor asked the Japanese people to resist to the death the invasion of their homeland, they would have done so. And countless numbers on both sides would have died. Perhaps I am alive today because the use of the atom bomb brought the war to a speedy conclusion. CONRAD...