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...chairman James Leach and Democrats Charles Schumer and Nita Lowey of New York are considering legislation that would require more careful research into the provenance of a work at the time of its sale. In August the National Jewish Museum in Washington launched the Holocaust Art Restitution Project, or HARP, a database and research institute dedicated to cataloging lost collections both in Europe and the U.S. The World Jewish Congress has established a similar project, headed by Ronald Lauder, the chairman of the board for New York's Museum of Modern Art and chairman of the Estee Lauder cosmetics empire...
...HARP has already received some two dozen inquiries from survivors or their heirs wanting to pursue claims. But most are not wealthy, and could have trouble bearing the cost of the protracted litigation that may be required to recover their property. As the Goodmans have discovered, locating lost art is one thing. Getting it back is another...
...second movement "Largo" continues the both the warmth and the darkness of tone, but with a more brooding aspect. Throughout were hints of dirrerent military sounds, jarring sorrowfully together. At times the orchestra seemed overly lugubrious, but the interesting interspersions of piano and harp added to the variety of this section...
...concertgoers in Symphony Hall had been disappointed by the lack of a visual spectacle to accompany the delivery of their aural divertissement, they now realized that the best had truly been saved for last. The music itself was enough to enthrall the listeners, but even the juxtaposition of flowing harp and string lines in the Adagietto against the hysteria of Mahler's militaristic finale paled against one man's unearthly presence. Jacket strained across his back, he quavered with emotion, pressing his fingers to his lips to evoke a sense of the bellissimo in the Adagietto; in the frenzied phrases...
...outdone, the Messinger campaign continues to harp on the Mayor's questionable campaign finance practices, his callous treatment of the city's schools and his alleged draft-dodging during the Vietnam...