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COMPOSER: ERICH WOLFGANG KORNGOLD...
MAHLER CALLED HIM A GENIUS; Richard Strauss held him in awe; Puccini said he could give away half his talent and still have plenty left over. Schoenberg? Stravinsky? No, the recipient of these accolades was a wunderkind from Vienna named Erich Wolfgang Korngold. The son of the city's leading music critic, young Korngold had written a large body of music before he turned 15, including a piano sonata for Artur Schnabel, and achieved international success in 1920 at the age of 23 with his romantic opera Die Tote Stadt (The Dead City). It seemed possible that he would...
...45th Venice Biennale is mostly stale, mannered stuff. MUSIC The syntho-dance band New Order reveals a human touch. Clues to composer Erich Korngold's Hollywood detour. BOOKS The surprising success of an Anita Hill debunking. The Pugilist at Rest introduces a striking short-story writer. THEATER Anna Deavere Smith illuminates the Los Angeles riots. TELEVISION A look at gay writer Armistead Maupin...
...writing and teaching have always ranged widely. Their base -- laid long ago at Harvard -- is the tradition of German philology, exemplified in America by the emigre scholar Erich Auerbach (1892-1957), that explores the modes and levels of representation in Western writing. "Representation" -- how we see other cultures, how we depict them in our own through imagination and stereotype -- is the core of Said's work, especially of Orientalism and Culture and Imperialism. But Said despises what he calls "the minority mentality" on American campuses. "My books are one long protest against it. The status of victim...
...leader -- preferably someone with star power, a marquee name. Among the people still in the running for the Pops job, according to rumor: Top 40- esque entertainers Billy Joel, Paul McCartney, Quincy Jones and Marvin Hamlisch. There are also more conventional candidates up for the post, including conductors Erich Kunzel of the Cincinnati Pops and John Mauceri of the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra...