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...nearly half a century, Nakashima has been producing unique furniture for loyal clients. In the process, he has also built a distinguished reputation. Fellow furniture maker Sam Maloof calls him the "elder statesman" of the postwar American crafts movement; Anne d'Harnoncourt, director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, proclaims him "a national treasure." To further polish his renown, a warm and witty retrospective show of his work is now on view at the American Crafts Museum in New York City. "Full Circle" presents 43 of Nakashima's best pieces, from a battered 1944 teak coffee table to a masterly...
...Mozart" [Sept. 5] is that performances too often sound cold, clinical, antiseptic. For all their lack of authenticity, I still find the recordings of Mozart by Sir Thomas Beecham and the incomparable Busch brothers far more alive and satisfying and ultimately more faithful to the composer than those of Harnoncourt, Leonhardt and others...
...Perhaps because the museum has fixed in its memory the image of the late René d'Harnoncourt, who was director from 1949 to 1968. An amiable giant of a man, he had impeccable scholarship, gentle charm, and the kind of offhand authority that makes administration easy and donors eager. His successor, Bates Lowry, proved to be a disastrous administrator and lasted only ten months. Hightower remained 20. His failure has something to do with that impalpable thing called presence. He looked even more boyish than his years. Often compelled by his job as director to address fund-raising...
...acting director, the trustees named Richard Oldenburg, 38, brother of Sculptor Claes Oldenburg and the museum's director of publications since 1969. The search for a new d'Harnoncourt continues...
...whole new world awaits you with the Harnoncourt recordings. It could easily be shocking. Though having played in the St. Matthew Passion here last spring, still I thought I had put on the wrong record when first hearing the Concentus Musicus recording of that piece. Baroque music is not musty, dense, or unreachable; it is powerful and active. The Concentus Musicus has virtually transcended their time in emotional and intellectual appreciation of the music of a different...