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...strength lies in warm but unsentimentalized interpretations of an essentially Central European repertoire. His love of contemporary music is already clear in his Cleveland programming: on a U.S. tour last month, he offered a ravishing performance of Arnold Schoenberg's unfinished atonal oratorio, Die Jakobsleiter (Jacob's Ladder), and an impassioned reading of Alban Berg's twelve-tone Violin Concerto, with Soloist Itzhak Perlman. The most recent Severance Hall program featured the late-Romantic composer Hans Pfitzner's Violin Concerto, a work rarely heard outside Germany. Yet Dohnanyi is also strong in more traditional fare, which...
...Jacob V. Lamar Jr. Reported by Sam Allis with Mondale and Douglas Brew with the President...
...come you're so upper class and we're so lower class, and you're our daughter?" a Government economist named Jacob Perlman once asked his sassy child Judith. Not an easy question for the future Miss Manners to answer. Perhaps some kind of metamorphosis began back when Perlman worked for the United Nations and moved his family to the Philippines. Recalls Judith Martin: "My father sat us down, my brother and me, and said, 'Children, we have to tell you something. We have reached the crucial point when the servants outnumber...
...recites it in Mark: "Hear, O Israel: The Sovereign our God, the Sovereign is one." In Acts 3, in the interests of domestic balance, the customary list of Hebrew patriarchs is augmented by the names of their wives: "The God of Abraham [and Sarah], of Isaac [and Rebekah], of Jacob, [Leah and Rachel...
...Paulist Press; 320 pages; $11.95). Compiled by an Israeli disciple of Soloveitchik's, Pinchas Peli, Repentance is based on transcriptions of Yom Kippur discourses that the Rav delivered in New York City over twelve years. Reviewing the earlier Hebrew edition of Repentance, Chicago's Reform rabbi Arnold Jacob Wolf declared that Soloveitchik is "more and more obviously the teacher of the time. If I am not mistaken, people will still be reading him in a thousand years...