Word: georges
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Bonito Oliva's curatorial "method" has been to jumble works together in the Italian pavilion under the title "The Cardinal Points of Art." The result is a shambles, featuring the usual notables from Joseph Beuys to Georg Baselitz, interfused with less famous figures and a large photography section. Many of the individual works are worth seeing -- or reseeing, since not a few have been round the international circuit already -- but since this is one of the worst-hung shows in recent memory, it is quite hard to do even that...
...treasures the experience of rehearsing with him. "Bach was another world to me," she says. "At the beginning I was always in a rush. Karajan taught me to take the tempo tranquilly, to take a breath. This is something I use for everything." To those names, add Sir Georg Solti, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Chailly -- a stellar fan club...
...winners, the tyranny of time was partly reversed, and the payoff was a moment that seemed to last forever. "It's wonderful that such an investment has a return all in one day," said Georg Hackl, a silver medalist in 1988 claiming his gold in the luge. But even for champions, there are a hundred clocks working simultaneously, not all of them benign. Bonnie Blair, after winning a gold, coolly outlined the four-year plan that took her from the Calgary Games to Albertville and how "I took each year a little differently." Not in the plan, however...
...Russian Masses Reject the Reforms of Patriarch Nikon? A Critical Look at Historical Evidence--by Georg Michels, postdoctoral fellow, Russian Research Center. Coolidge Hall, room 4, noon...
...recording of Verdi's Otello on London Records uses this formula neatly. The music is one of the best-known operas by one of the best-known composers of opera, the names are big (Pavarotti, Kiri te Kanawa and Leo Nucci, with Sir Georg Solti at the helm), and the pretext is a double celebration: the 100th anniversary of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the 100th recording on CD of Solti with the CSO. But, unlike the "Three Tenors" concert or the Amadeus soundtrack, a new recording of Otello is the kind of project that must stand...