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BUSONI: PIANO CONCERTO (Telarc). A bit grandiose but truly grand, with Christoph von Dohnanyi and the Cleveland Orchestra and spearheaded by Garrick Ohlsson's heroic playing of the difficult piano part in this rarely performed 1904 concerto...
...West Germans have made some amends, but they have forgotten too much; the Austrians deny they were Hitler's willing accomplices; the Dutch idolize Anne Frank but overlook the fact that she was betrayed by one of the many Dutch collaborators; the French cherish the myth of the heroic Resistance but began mistreating Jews well before the Nazis asked them to do so; the Soviets steadfastly denigrate the Jewishness of most Holocaust victims; and all too many Americans are turning memories of the Holocaust into a vulgar fund-raising carnival...
...will not provide a glamorous, Dark Victory-style degeneration. Any illness can be ugly, and so can the response to it. Amid a sickroom's strained bonhomie, Willy (Campbell Scott) tiptoes away to wash off the light kiss of an infected friend. But others find the option of heroic devotion. David, now nursemaid to the ailing Sean, covers up when Sean's boss calls, and diapers the incontinent patient. Because David is also standing a potential deathwatch on his future, his caring grace is spectacular. This is what love...
...inclusive nouns and pronouns (for instance, in referring to believers as "men" or "sons"), which the American bishops have been trying to banish from their own documents. One problematic passage in the Catechism, though it was not specifically cited by Lipscomb's panel, introduces a list of heroic women in the Bible by terming them "weak and feeble." The U.S. bishops did not dispute the text's predictable conservatism on controversial moral issues like birth control, but they did urge that such subjects get a "more positive" treatment rather than an inflexible listing...
...going to pretend that the performance of Hector Berlioz's heroic opera Les Troyens (The Trojans), which has just opened the new Opera de la Bastille in Paris, is anything near the composer's gigantic vision. But for the moment that does not matter. What does matter is what the production represented: a triumph for Myung-Whun Chung, the Opera's untested 37-year-old Korean-American music director; a triumph for Pierre Berge, the man who hired Chung; a triumph for Carlos Ott, the unknown Canadian architect; a triumph for French President Francois Mitterrand; and, most important...