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...great-grandfather Johann Christoph Jardin was a whaler. Born in Germany, he was a cooper by training, making barrels aboard ship to hold the whale oil gathered by men who spent months, even years, roaming the seas. He sailed out of New Bedford, Mass., in the late 1840s. When his ship was wrecked in the Arctic a decade later, those who made it to shore survived the cold by stomping back and forth across the frozen tundra. My father remembers Christoph (as he called himself) telling him how his hair turned white overnight. Eventually they were rescued and taken...
...Johann Sebastian Bach...
...complete understanding of holidays, however, must include more than just abstract drama. While sixteenth century artists like Johann Sebastian Bach certainly had a sincere religious motivation to continue the tradition of setting the Passion--the biblical story of Christ's arrest and crucifixion--to music, they certainly did not fail to take advantage of the abstract drama which secular audiences can easily appreciate...
...Morris' fanciful choreography and hear how some of that unfeigned delight has made its way into Ma's rhythmically light-footed performance. Whether on CD or videocassette, it is the best of all possible introductions to Yo-Yo Ma's newly revised version of the Gospel According to Johann Sebastian Bach...
...latest version of Johann Strauss' invincible operetta replaces Old Vienna with New York, and sets the story on the final day of Prohibition. Besides confirming the characters in their schnapps and vodka guzzling, this innovation allows for wittiness of reference: we got to see flappers onstage during the longer instrumental passages, and hear mention of Greta Garbo, Dillinger and Einstein. The evening's comedy embraced everything from metahumor and operatic in-jokes to puns, sight-gags and slapstick, and the freshness of the jokes kept the story lively through a potentially interminable second...