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Vega 1 and 2 will be joined by three other spacecraft. Next January, Japan will launch its MST5 probe, followed in July by the eleven-nation European Space Agency's spacecraft, Giotto, and Japan's second probe, PlanetA, in August. The five craft will be coordinated to analyze the comet from different distances, with the closest probe, Giotto, programmed to come within 300 miles...
...surely be the longest individual part in the operatic literature. The saint appears in seven of the eight tableaux and does much, if not most, of the singing in each. At the composer's request, Giuseppe Crisolini-Malatesta based the sets and costumes on paintings by Fra Angelico, Giotto and Matthias Grünewald. As staged by Sandro Sequi, scenes are played in small, diorama-like boxes to emphasize the work's distant, legendary quality. The only serious dramatic defect is the sixth scene, the sermon to the birds, which was intended to be the high point. What...
Today there is a Bible for every taste-or lack thereof. For the Christian who has everything, Oxford Press offers the Washburn College Bible, a dressed-up King James Version with 66 full-color reproductions of masterpieces from Giotto to Rouault and three screen prints by Josef Albers: $3,500 for a red leather-bound three-volume "limited edition" in a cloth-covered redwood case. A scaled-down one-volume slipcased trade version costs a mere $65. (Oxford's cheapest King James is $12.50.) At the opposite end of the cultural scale. Scarf Press and David C. Cook have...
European art of the more or less distant past, be it Dante or Giotto, Proust or Mondrian, cannot be properly appreciated without a great deal of study and contemplation. Harvard undergraduates in general do not think the art important enough to be worth the effort and devote most of their time to economics and biology. The faculty do little to convince them they are wrong...
...jazz is that its original face has never been lost. The music is no older than the century, and many of its fathers are still alive and playing. Painting and classical music progress sequentially, discarding earlier styles and forms in pursuit of the new (nobody, for example, paints like Giotto today, or composes like Haydn), but jazz continues to flower cumulatively, taking on and transforming the new without ever abandoning the old. It is a fugue with a life of its own, endlessly recapitulating itself. If its vitality dims from time to time under the onslaught of fads or sheer...