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REPORTERS: Elizabeth L. Bland, Ketanji O. Brown, Barbara Burke, Wendy Cole, Tom Curry, Kathryn Jackson Fallon, Janice M. Horowitz, Jeanette Isaac, Daniel S. Levy, Michael Quinn, Andrea Sachs, Alain L. Sanders, David Seideman, David E. Thigpen...
REPORTERS: Elizabeth L. Bland, Ketanji O. Brown, Barbara Burke, Wendy Cole, Tom Curry, Kathryn Jackson Fallon, Janice M. Horowitz, Jeanette Isaac, Daniel S. Levy, Michael Quinn, Andrea Sachs, Alain L. Sanders, David Seideman, David E. Thigpen...
REPORTERS: Elizabeth L. Bland, Ketanji O. Brown, Barbara Burke, Wendy Cole, Tom Curry, Kathryn Jackson Fallon, Janice M. Horowitz, Jeanette Isaac, Daniel S. Levy, Michael Quinn, Andrea Sachs, Alain L. Sanders, David Seideman, David E. Thigpen...
Thus, when a Jewish interviewee named Ephraim Isaac says, "Abraham, for me, is my ancestor -- my very own personal ancestor," his words are shredded, sliced, diced, pureed by a live vocal quartet and set to the implied, inherent music of his speech rhythms and intonation, accompanied by a small instrumental ensemble. In works such as the 1912 Pierrot lunaire, Arnold Schoenberg invented the device of sprechstimme, or speech-song; in The Cave Reich has perfected the principle and built an entire work upon...
...level, the entire Arab-Israeli struggle can be seen as a biblical family tragedy: Abraham's rejection of his concubine Hagar and his first-born son Ishmael in favor of his lawful wife Sarah and their son Isaac. Muslims regard Ishmael (Ismail) as the father of the Arab peoples, while Jews honor Isaac as their progenitor. And both sides claim Abraham (Ibrahim) as their common ancestor...