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...mood of figures submitting to the earth and supernatural forces prevails throughout "Epic." Weakened by some unearthly power, the dancers take turns falling out of the dance; two male dancers grasp the arms of a girl, she falls straight back like a statue knocked over, and is dragged dramatically off stage. Players move on and off the stage, a recurring theme of growth and decay as the numbers of dancers increases and decreases...
...finished off eight centuries of musical technique, at least for me," says Eaton. For many listeners Heracles may simply have finished off serialism, suggesting that little more can be done to make that strait-laced and formulistic method of sticking notes together work in operatic terms. Eaton's grasp of musical technique is distinctly impressive, but his sense of theater is so undeveloped it verges on naivete. Heracles' characters discourse at enormous length but never with enough musical depth to make themselves or their arguments convincing. Unlike most of his contemporaries, Eaton knows how to use an orchestra...
...religion, reported on both religious and political aspects of Judaism. He sought out members of the militant Jewish Defense League in Cliffside Park, N.J., Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn and leading Jewish spokesmen and scholars. "I don't think you can be an intelligent Christian without having a good grasp of Judaism," he says. "Working on this cover was, in a sense, a religious experience...
...game was originally developed to help non-mathematical graduate students in biology grasp more theoretical aspects of probability and population dynamics...
...next July in Miami Beach, the primary demonstrated that the new Democratic Party reforms have almost halved his once total control of the Illinois delegation. At the same time, the primary results in contests for Governor and state's attorney revealed that Daley is otherwise losing his baronial grasp (see following story...