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...ceremonies, President Ford opened an antique safe that had been filled with mementos of the 1870s. The contents - autographs, photographs, inkstands, a book on temperance - limned a more circumscribed and monochrome period. For the 2076 Tricentennial, many Americans are cramming time capsules with different ingredients, including credit cards, pick et signs and whole automobiles...
...under Administrator Moran Caplat's dictum of "hiring people we know and exploiting them at what they want to do." To succeed retiring Musical Director John Pritchard, Glyndebourne is bringing in Conductor Bernard Haitink. His crisp baton imparts a discipline to this year's production of Pelleas et Melisande that discloses unexpected shadings in Debussy's diaphanous music...
However, several by-products of the trend towards other-direction that the authors said were healthy developments are the ones that appear to be most lacking in today's pre-professional education circles. The other directed youth, according to Reisman, et al., asks more of a career than conventional status and pecuniary requirements, questions ways of going about things and is not content to follow blindly the ways of the past; and is more attuned to social concerns of people than towards personal illusions of grandeur and reward...
...still cling to a belief in the "revolutionary" powers of art will no doubt be irritated, but the appropriateness of Elderfield's approach is borne out by the very first room of the show, which holds two celebrated and once controversial Fauve paintings: Matisse's Luxe, calme et volupte...
...There is south on Highway One, you know, the one that goes through Ipswich et al. Highway One peters out in downtown Key West, Florida--they just closed down the naval air station so the town will probably be even sleepier than it ever was. After a couple of days of the palm trees and all their concomitants, you'll probably be ready for the pedal steel guitars. Well, the only places I know of to look for pedal steel music are two perhaps figmentary, (because they're only mentioned in songs) but pretty concrete (at least in the images...