Word: gluck
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plan not only to acquire productions from Europe and from such U.S. opera companies as St. Louis, Chicago and San Francisco but also to create new stagings of their own -- and starting in 1991, to collaborate on experimental productions with the Met. Planned for the first Met-BAM season: Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice and a new Adams opera based on the Achille Lauro hijacking...
...Mickey Mantle with Herb Gluck...
...made of skillfully disguised plaster. Scenes from plays like Goethe's Faust and Lessing's Nathan der Weise adorn the doorways; in the auditorium, the gilt chandelier is topped with the crest of the old Saxon monarchy. It illuminates a mid-19th century musical pantheon that includes Mozart, Beethoven, Gluck, Mendelssohn, Meyerbeer and Spontini...
Williamson is freshest when he writes about his contemporaries-- Louise Gluck, Richard Tillinghast, Diane Wakoski, Frank Bidart, James McMichael, Robert Pinsky, and Allen Grossman. Each of these poets has confronted the same problems that Williamson's book addresses, and Williamson's refusal to apply premature classifications is the beginning of a fair critical treatment of these poets. It is here that he addresses the complexity of each post's private images and the value of irony...
...rushing style is workmanlike. "He runs North-South," says Gluck, "By that I mean he runs straight for the end zone and that's the quickest way to goal line. That's why he'll carry the bull...