Word: erasing
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After hearing a piece played by scores of soloists from myriad eras and traditions, it's rare that a performer can tell you something new. But so it was with Christian Zacharias, whose performance of Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto highlighted an otherwise lackluster afternoon at Tanglewood Sunday. Zacharias gave...
NEW YORK: When Alan Greenspan speaks, people listen. Especially on Wall Street, where his latest pronouncement at a Senate Banking Committee meeting this morning sent the Dow plunging by more than 100 points before it settled to a loss for 61 1/2 for the day. Greenspan, who rocked markets in...
The Handel & Haydn Society, founded in Boston in 1815, is the United States' oldest continuing performing arts ensemble. Since then, H&H has broadened the American performance repertoire by premiering such popular pieces as Handel's Messiah in 1818 (they have performed it annually since 1854), Bach's Mass in...
Other historical similarities between the Hayes and Clinton eras are startling. A Europe beginning a 40-year interlude of peace (for Clinton, read as the end of the cold war). A nation changing from an agricultural economy to an industrial base (now, industry to information). A First Lady, "Lemonade Lucy...
But not, unlike so many contemporary fictional neurotics, unpleasant to be around. She never wallows in self-pity; she wallows, instead, in deracinated compassion for everyone, including herself, who must cope with contemporary reality. "People were lucky to have lived in bygone eras, I thought, even though they're dead...