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...riveted by what was happening onstage. The Handel opera was Tamerlano, a 1724 rarity about a Saddam-like emperor in the 15th century. It's been fashionable to update obscure Baroque works by putting them into contemporary settings, the more incongruous the better (or worse). At Glimmerglass, British director Jonathan Miller and set designer John Conklin play it sumptuously straight. On a richly lighted stage dominated by an enormous sliding screen of gold, extravagantly costumed singers enact the intrigues of the despot's court with the stylized poise and dignity of figures in 18th century European Orientalist paintings...
Other candidates include Marty Connor, William C. Jones, Paul T. Kearns, Craig A. Kelley, Arthur F. Libitz, Ralph A. Lopez, James J. McSweeney, Barbara J. Pilgrim and Jonathan T. Spaminato...
...Jonathan S. Myers is the only incumbent who will not seek re-election...
...survived by his wife, Joan (Dreyfus)Wylie of Cambridge; two sons, Jonathan of Belmont,Mass., and David of Concord, Mass.; threestepchildren, James Blout of Concord, Mass., SusanB. Merry of Chicago, and William Blout ofLexington, Mass.; 14 grandchildren from thecombined families; and his brother, Francis E.Wylie of Hingham...
Less serious, but no less rancorous or symbolic, was the allegation of censorship in the publication of the U.N.'s own 50th-anniversary commemorative book, A Vision of Hope. The editor, Jonathan Power, a British journalist, protested that the U.N. staff made extensive cuts in the manuscript that 15 writers had turned in. Power says more than 70 references were deleted and most focused on nations cited for abusing human rights or failing to sign the U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights...