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Past Lloyd Webber extravaganzas concerned animals (Cats), machines (Starlight Express), wraiths (The Phantom of the Opera), icons (Evita) and divinities (Jesus Christ Superstar). His delicate and intimate new work, adapted from a 1955 novel by Britain's David Garnett, is about ordinary human beings learning life's painful lessons. The affections on display include the parental, filial and fraternal; but the emphasis is on the romantic, which takes place mostly between partners of unlike ages and is presented as primarily a process of teaching. Events are often melodramatic, but the tone is rueful and autumnal. From the opening moment...
...most eagerly anticipated arrival, Lloyd Webber's Aspects of Love, is also the best. Adapted from a 1955 novel by Britain's David Garnett, it is a rueful and autumnal meditation on romance as a process of teaching, almost of parenting. Five characters of widely varying ages entwine, sort themselves out and entwine in new pairings over decades. This sophisticated material is handled with cunning naivete. Lloyd Webber's score, characteristically, consists mostly of a few much repeated tunes: Love Changes Everything, Seeing Is Believing and Life Goes On, Love Goes Free. All three rank among the prettiest...
Lloyd Webber's forthcoming show, Aspects of Love, is not likely to be produced at the Metropolitan Opera House any time soon, but it appears to be the closest thing to a conventional opera he has yet composed. Based on the 1955 novel by David Garnett, a member of the Bloomsbury group, Aspects is an intimate chamber work that examines the lives and loves of a small circle of friends. "Aspects will come out closer in scale to a kind of Mozartian piece," promises the composer. "It will require from me a very firm technique, and the scenes will have...
...Dartmouth: Dartmouth is reviewing its policy, Daily Dartmouth Editor Karen Garnett said. The faculty masters of residence halls proposed a policy like Yale's, but the governing committee rejected the proposal, she said. One rule under consideration would prohibit freshmen from attending evening parties at fraternities and sororities. Six people have been arrested this year for buying alcohol for underage students, Garnett said...
...sheer passage of time has helped to heal some wounds. But it has left a certain fatalism. In Viet Nam, the G.I.'s absurdist, shrugging slogan was "It don't mean nuthin'." Today Jim Garnett, a Seattle carpenter who served as an Army supply clerk, says, "It was just something we all went through. Like when you were a kid and your old man comes home drunk at night. He wakes everybody up, everybody knows what's going on, and it makes everyone real uncomfortable. But in the morning, no one talked about...