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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...
...specific details through powerful firsthand accounts and battlefield reports. One of his most striking sources is the diary of a Confederate Major, who narrates the events up to the middle of the battle when he himself is shot and killed while writing. Others include the memoirs of Confederate General Isaac Trimble, the 68-year-old unlikely hero of the Confederate victory and General John Fremont, the Union commander whose miscalculations and lack of offense caused his army to lose the battle to a Confederate opponent half its size. The battle was neither particularly large nor particularly small by the standards...
REPORTERS: Ginia Bellafante, 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: Ginia Bellafante, 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...
Second on the program was Golijov's "Yiddishbbuck," a three movement elegy inspired, according to the program notes, by apocrybhal and Franz Kafka, but commemorating Isaac Bashevis Singer, Leonard Bernstein and concentration camp victims. Such program notes gave a fair indication of the kind of piece that ensued, which seemed all gesture and no substance. (Golijov was present and made obligatory obsequious composers stage appearance, almost refusing to bow in his attempt to give the performers all the credit.) Also disappointing was cobaidulina...