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...playing the violin (a practice emulated by Rieu); countless other purveyors of light classical music have flourished since. What sets Rieu apart is timing. Today's conductors and soloists, however gifted, mostly lack the charisma of the previous generations of classical-music giants such as Leonard Bernstein and Vladimir Horowitz, and they have largely failed to capture the imagination of the listening public. As a result, classical-record sales are in free fall, and the major labels are eagerly looking for fresh and photogenic faces to market. Rieu's hunky good looks (he always leads the orchestra facing the audience...
...Stash Horowitz, co-chair of the Cambridge Neighborhood Initiative-a group of residents who abut the site-told the council on Monday that Polaroid should investigate the site fully before construction...
...been accused of being paranoid about pollution [at the site]," said Horowitz. "But I don't understand why Polaroid should be unresponsive to testing the site before building there...
...Horowitz and his co-chair, Elie Yarden, said they had been impressed that the corporation initially consulted them, thinking the action foretold good relations to come...
Nonetheless, it would be hard to build a full-scale biography from Burning the Days. When and why, for example, did Salter decide to change his family name? (He was born James Horowitz.) Salter tells us that a captain's wife with whom he had a doomed, adulterous affair in Hawaii "put her mark on me" in a subtle, feminine way by choosing the girl he would wed. But what was the girl's name, and how did that marriage dissolve? In the preface to his memoir, Salter raises, but then brushes aside, the possibility that what one chooses...