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...Adams is president and director of VerySpecial Arts, Massachusetts, an organization whichprovides access to art to Massachusetts residentswith special needs.Courtesy of Abrams FamilyA GENEROUS GIFT: Joachim Wtewael's"Belgica's Offering Help" is among the 110 Dutchdrawings donated to the University earlier thisweek...
...performance produced ample evidence of the artistry behind the fame and of their notoriety in classical music circles. The concert consisted of three wood-wind concertos, a Flute Concerto in G by Johann Joachim Quantz, a concerto for bassoon and orchestra called The Five Sacred Trees by Williams and the Pied Piper Fantasy by John Corigliano. A small highlighted paragraph in the program booklet introduced this program as an experiment in concerto styles, setting forth the traditional three-movement Quantz concerto as a "control" for the more contemporary programmatic styles of the last two concertos. Even in this small paragraph...
...archbishop did not fear death, even with murder all around him in bloody Burundi. Stories had been whispered about Joachim Ruhuna. One told of how during an ambush by thugs intent on killing him, he calmly asked for a moment to make his peace with God--a fearless request that virtually disarmed them, allowing him to go free. Though he had enemies on all sides, he regularly traveled without escort in a country where the two tribes are hell-bent on destroying each other, where more than 150,000 people have been killed since 1993, where in July the last...
...fruit in the dishes is so grandly solid, while the plates themselves tilt just enough to convey an underlying peril. The relationships in a still life were as infinite to Cezanne as those in a landscape: "These glasses, these plates, they talk among themselves," he wrote to his friend Joachim Gasquet. "Interminable disclosures...
...MANY NEW LOCKS, ANTI-AUTO-THEFT devices and increased insurance premiums are we to endure while we are winning "the war on crime''? I fear the law and order of today, as well as our so-called justice system. I would prefer justice and punishment a la Singapore. JOACHIM H. BARZ Mesa, Arizona...