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...twentieth century great Marcel Dupré are considered authoritative. He has recorded two albums for Decca, and his recording at the organ of Southwark Cathedral won the Gramophone magazine’s “Critic Choice Award” in 1983. Recent compact disc releases on the Hyperion, Guild, Nimbus and Priory labels have brought wide critical acclaim. Program highlights will include Bach’s Prelude and Fugue in A minor and Mozart’s Fantasia in F minor. Expect a scintillating and nuanced performance on a superb organ from Scott. —Alexander B. Fabry
...approached with a film deal was in the fall of 2002 when the autobiography of former Harvard student Elizabeth Murray commenced filming in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Murray’s book about her struggles as an adolescent living on the streets, entitled Breaking Waters, was picked up by Hyperion Press and quickly adapted into a Lifetime movie, which became the most watched broadcast in Lifetime’s history. And in 2000, Harvard student Brooke Ellison ’00 was offered a book deal in her senior year and was soon approached by Christopher Reeve with a proposal...
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...same time, however, Oxnam's private life was falling apart. He suffered from alcoholism and bulimia and flew into frequent, irrational rages. Several nights a week, as he admits in his courageous new memoir, A Fractured Mind (Hyperion; 285 pages), he performed what he calls his addiction ritual. "It required," he writes, "two packs of cigarettes, Polish sausage, a gallon of ice cream, a two-pound bag of peanuts, a bottle of scotch, and a pornographic movie...
...power of words. Her father, President John F. Kennedy, was famously eloquent. Her mother Jacqueline adored poetry and kept a scrapbook in which her children would paste favorite poems. Kennedy, 47, talked with Time about her new anthology, A Family of Poems: My Favorite Poetry for Children (Hyperion...