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Right now, Lauderdale's favorite musical works include Chopin's nooturnes, Janacek's "On the Overgrown Path," and Delibes' opera "Lakme...
...music. "I'm learning a new repertoire," he says when the coughing subsides. "Schubert, Beethoven and Brahms sonatas. Life and art are inseparable -- you love it and you give it away." He rises from bed and slowly walks to his piano, sits and begins a short piece by Leos Janacek. He opens the nearest window and begins playing with more authority, his eyes closed, his head thrown back, a hand poised dramatically to flourish over the keys. His eyes open again, and now they glow like coals from beneath the white ridges of his skull. At the finish, some color...
...Maurice Sendak book is like a dinner without ice cream. This season the doyen of children's books has produced nothing new, but his Posters (Crown; $45) collects in an oversize volume works that few enthusiasts have ever seen. Here are his broadsides for operas by Mozart and Janacek (with sets and costumes from designs by the artist). Here are brilliant announcements for the International Year of the Child; a magnificent lion and butterfly for the Broadway flop Stages; and 1985's poster for Jewish Book Month, with the sound rabbinical advice, "To three possessions thou shouldst look. Acquire...
...strips of Winsor McCay and the reassuring images of bread and bed; Outside Over There (1981), the story of an airborne young heroine, had the enchanting quality of classical ballet. After that, Sendak's interests turned to the stage, and he designed the sets and costumes for Leos Janacek's opera The Cunning Little Vixen, as well as operatic adaptations of his own works. It is the theater that informs Sendak's illustrations for E.T.A. Hoffmann's Nutcracker (Crown; $19.95). This is not the customary sugarplum rendition. As the artist points out in his introduction...
...pleasures of the ENO are to be found less in the singing than in the apposite theatricality of its productions, the innovative visions of its directors and the restless inquisitiveness of its approach to the whole range of the repertory, including infrequently heard works by Dvorak, Smetana and Janacek. Unlike the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, which is an international company featuring a rotation of globe-trotting star performers, the ENO is a frankly nationalistic company. It performs only in English, employs mostly British singers and conductors, and regularly champions British works. As such, it is probably a better barometer...