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...Pogorelich, Chicago Symphony, Claudio Abbado, conductor; Deutsche Grammophon). These concertos, featuring two electrifying performers, are of unusual interest. Pogorelich has technique and temperament in equal measure; right from the piano's cascading entry, this is hot-blooded, Russian-style Chopin, more than a continent removed from the genteel salons of 19th century Paris. The Kremer-Marriner partnership in the Beethoven results in an elegant performance deliberately at odds with the customarily virtuosic way of viewing the piece, but the real surprise here is the cadenzas by Alfred Schnittke, a contemporary Soviet composer championed by Kremer. Schnittke's adventurous...
...been bitterly unhappy since Julia's remarriage." Waynesboro's genteel bigots are scarcely more compelling. Germans are "hucksters" and the Irish "pa pists." The enduring central themes of Ladies are the passage of years and the sense of moribund small-town life. These the author conveys effectively, if windily, as she regards time as "an accordion, all the air squeezed out of it as you grew...
...nage in Design for Living, a triangle with some complex emotional geometry. Otto (Frank Langella) and Leo (Raul Julia) are friends; Gilda (Jill Clayburgh) and Otto become lovers; Gilda dumps Otto for Leo; Gilda leaves them both for a stuffy art dealer; Otto and Leo liberate Gilda from genteel sobriety. In Coward's world the cabal of camaraderie must ever win out over the exclusivity of passion, and style consists of tiptoeing away from the mess one has made of one's life...
DIED. Peter C. Wilson, 71, English art salesman extraordinary and longtime chairman of Sotheby's, the world's leading art-auction firm, who was responsible for transforming the genteel, Old World establishment into a glamorous high-tech $575 million-a-year business; of the effects of diabetes; in Paris. After joining Sotheby's in 1936 as a porter, the normally reticent Wilson became a nonpareil auctioneer, dubbed the "fastest gavel in the West." Rising to chairman in 1958, he set about overseas expansion, establishing offices in Europe, Asia, Latin America and the U.S., notably in New York...
Today every University facility and dormitory is open to women. But there are still rooms at Harvard that women may not enter--the secret cloisters of the college's nine all-male final clubs, where the genteel intolerance of the 1950s still flourishes. Many of the clubs, moreover, enjoy the indirect or direct support of the College administration, in areas such as steam and telephone service at reduced rates and official assistance in organizing their annual fall selection process...