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...depth, it will just make him more superficial." Mortier is also critical of the Salzburg festival's plans. "What interest could there be in playing Mozart's 22 operas? None. The interest is not to play the Mozart catalog but to make out of, say, [the opera] Don Giovanni, everything that that work could be," he tells Time. Salzburg officials aren't fazed by such criticism. The tourism office's Brugger points out that Mozart has long since become a global brand, exploited by some for much more than his music. And for this Mozart anniversary year, money doesn...
ROSA By Nikki Giovanni Illustrated by Bryan Collier...
...Parks was having a good day," writes Giovanni at the start of her retelling of the Rosa Parks story. But, as most Americans know, that chilly, ordinary workday of an extraordinary seamstress in Montgomery, Ala., ultimately helped ignite the civil rights movement. Giovanni, a poet and black activist, keeps her evident moral outrage in check as she tells the tale of Parks' bus ride into history, maintaining the same firm, level tone that Parks did when she refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus to a white man. Parks, Giovanni writes, was tired. "She was tired...
Collier's richly colored watercolors and collages, like Giovanni's text, portray an impassioned episode boldly but with dignified restraint. In light of Parks' death at age 92 in October, this book seems especially timely. But its message of quiet courage is timeless...
...health. It is right to be skeptical of the antiaging industry and the unrealistic expectations that its massive advertising campaigns raise in gullible consumers. It's necessary to make it clear that these products can't stop time. We must face aging with greater awareness of our own limits. Giovanni Leuci Trapani, Italy...