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...with bouquet, floating over . the roofs, edition size 400, later moved to the guest bedroom to make room for a large photorealist painting of motorcycle handlebars) is beyond computation. Chagall may have given more people their soft introduction to art dreams than any of his contemporaries. He was the fiddler on the roof of modernism. If he sometimes paid his spiritual taxes in folkloric sugar, it may not matter in the long run--for at Chagall's death one consults the paintings of his youth, whose wild eccentric beauty is indelible...
...costume weighing 25 lbs.," he notes. "In order to clear the people, I had to get my speed up to 35 m.p.h. It was a knee killer." Musicians face peril as well. Pinched nerves and muscle cramps caused by repetitive hand motions are common. Violinists suffer everything from fiddler's neck rash to complete jaw displacements. Trumpeters get neck hernias and muscle tears around their mouths. Bagpipers are prone to lung infections from fungus that grows inside the bag. Clarinetists develop thumb problems, because the 28-oz. horn is supported only by a hook on the finger...
...pages; $75), shows why. The authors (respectively, the drama critic of the New York Times and the artist's widow) use photos and Aronson's vivid sketches and paintings to document the bulk of his more than 100 designs, including Broadway's The Crucible, The Diary of Anne Frank, Fiddler on the Roof, Cabaret, Company, Follies and Pacific Overtures. The authoritative text evokes the artist's crusty personality and analyzes his ability to make each project new and distinctive -- in his word, a personal "rejuvenation." Quite a few of them also rejuvenated the American theater...
...vigorous first movement, which tips its hat to the opening of the Bartok Second Violin Concerto, a haunting, elegaic slow movement inspired by a mournful tune Bolcom heard whistled on the New York City subway and a riotous finale that is an homage to the late jazz fiddler Joe Venuti. Bright and accessible, the concerto is steeped in a popular idiom. "You don't have to tell people what it means," observes Luca, who is Rumanian born and Israeli raised. "The wonderful thing about playing it is that it is analogous to Mozart playing his works in Vienna...
...least likely champion of sweeping reform, raised his arms in triumph. Joining hands in the committee room celebration was an unlikely combination of allies: Russell Long, the shrewd Louisiana Democrat who for 37 years in the Senate has played the fine print of the tax code like a fiddler at a fais-dodo; Majority Leader Robert Dole, who once argued that tax reform was a lower priority than deficit reduction but who now promises to push through the measure on the Senate floor next month; and Bill Bradley, the New Jersey Democrat who for five years has been building...