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There is something so tenebrous, so portentous, so downright antagonistic about Alfred Schnittke's music that it is almost a wonder anybody either performs it or listens to it. In Schnittke's dark, Russo-Germanic artistic universe, strings do not soar, they brood; woodwinds do not chirp, they protest; brass...
Schnittke's rise to prominence is a tribute to his artistic integrity. His slight frame, perilous health (he has suffered two strokes and a heart attack) and diffident demeanor mask a revolutionary sensibility. As an iconoclast in a country of enforced artistic conformity, Schnittke represented for many of his Soviet...
First of all, many related departments are next to each other. Boylston Hall, scheduled for imminent evacuation, houses the Department of Romance Languages and Literature, the Department of the Classics, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, and the Department of Germanic Languages and literatures. It seems like a rather...
And in the mid-1980s, the standing committees themselves were redefined in an effort led by former Overseer and committee member Judge Rya W. Zobel '53, who has served on the Germanic Languages, Arnold Arboretum and Kennedy School of Government visiting committees.
Rather like subtitled dialogue in talky French movies, some of Bourre's sentences probably read better in the original. "The mouth," he notes at one point, "acts as a trial laboratory as well as a processing plant, and it's also an artist at work." The author, though, has a...