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John Nelson, 40, of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. Formerly a choral conductor, Nelson has an easy, fluent way with some of the grandest pieces in the repertory, like the Berlioz Requiem. He first came to attention when he organized an uncut performance of Berlioz's sprawling opera Les Troyens at Carnegie Hall in 1972 and then conducted the work the following year at the Met. An imaginative programmer, he has championed offbeat works like Shostakovich's Symphony No. 15, the composer's enigmatic symphonic valedictory...
...grandest accomplishment is an enormous machine that can make ice without benefit of electricity. Once he gets the contraption running, he starts hauling chunks of frozen water to neighboring villages, trying to impress the natives with a tangible example of progress in the tropics. He is messianic about his ice: "It's the beginning of perfection in an imperfect world. It makes sense of work. It's free. It's even pretty. It's civilization." Unfortunately, the machine that churns it out depends on what Allie calls "poison," a highly volatile mixture of hydrogen and enriched...
...company's 39 actors essay upwards of 250 roles, from weak-willed aristocrat to poor heroic cripple. The play dives into Dickensian bathos, preposterous coincidences, abrupt reversals of fortune, the collision of improbable goodness with impossible evil?and emerges triumphant, soaring with spirit. In the process it displays the grandest theatrical techniques, affirms the Tightness of love and friendship, revives pleasures and poignancies that have all but vanished from modern narrative art. At a time when Broadway is as busy and financially flush as it has been in decades (see following story), the coming of Nickleby demonstrates that...
Prince Charles weds his Lady Diana in the century's grandest royal match...
...carefully vetted congregation of 2,500 crowding each other for pew space under the great painted dome of St. Paul's Cathedral, more than 75 technicians manning 21 cameras, and an estimated worldwide television audience of 750 million. They will be tuning in the century's greatest, grandest nuptial, the sort of love story Hollywood doesn't make any more and the kind of spectacle it can't even afford any more...