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Most fortunately for those of us who love the sound of music, Lawrence Berman has not changed his tune in the slightest. As Monday evening's concert demonstrated once again, he combines with consummate artistry the lucid insight of a musicologist, the precise execution of a virtuoso, and the upretentious...
The Bartok works which concluded the program provided perhaps the most satisfying listening of the evening, simply because one never hears Bartok performed so sympathetically. Dissonance, so much a matter of course in the composer's style, was treated as such, rather than as a means of jolting the listener...
IN THE COMING OF AGE, Simone de Beauvoir recounts the plot of the ancient Japanese novel Narayama. It tells of the primitive custom, the "Feast of the Dead", the execution of village elders who have become a burden on their children, or have merely reached an untenable age. "Do the...
Texas attorney general Crawford C. Martin, filing one of the 16 briefs requesting the rehearings, said the Court's anti-execution ruling "constitutes a severe blow to the American jury system." He went on to say that the ruling forces the legislators to decide whether or not to punish by...
NEW YORK--Police Monday questioned "known associates and connections" of Thomas "Tommy Ryan" Eboli, reputed Mafia chieftan, who was slain Sunday in New York's 15th gangland style execution of the year.