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GOULD CONDUCTS WAGNER (Sony Classical). Shortly before his death in 1982, the legendary pianist Glenn Gould decided to experiment with the idea of becoming a conductor. Since he had abdicated the concert stage 18 years earlier, he & quietly rented a hall and hired some members of the Toronto Symphony. Though...
THE KISS. Smetana's idyll gets its first professional U.S. production from the Sarasota (Fla.) Opera. Czech melodies, Bohemian brio, English surtitles. Performances through March 12.
But appearances are deceiving. The country school is no educational idyll, but the centerpiece of a complicated social arrangement and a daunting challenge for a lone teacher, who may have to juggle pupils in as many as nine grades with creativity and coherence. At Pine Grove, which has a total...
Islam Dara is a small mujahedin supply base nestled in jagged rocks beneath a circle of mountains, a desert oasis fed by a cold thin stream. Except for the sound of aerial bombing that burns red rings of brush fire above the enclave, Islam Dara seems sheltered. A few canvas...
For Cubism was a response to a changed world -- a France that was no longer describable in the semirural idyll of Impressionism, a place whose emergent reality had more to do with inventive technology, mass media and the density of the great capital, Paris. Cubism is the urban art par...