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...Brundibar, a long-forgotten children's opera rediscovered by artist Maurice Sendak [OPERA, June 2], managed to exclude any mention of the work's composer Hans Krasa, a Czech who died in Auschwitz in 1944. Can anyone imagine an article about the revival of A Long Day's Journey into Night without a reference to Eugene O'Neill? MICHAEL BORISKIN ARTISTIC AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR COPLAND HOUSE Cortlandt Manor...
...travel companion, Dyer is a lively raconteur, the kind of person you'd want to journey with even if the destination was a nihilistic hell. His stories are peppered with amusing asides and deft observations, not just from him but his fellow travelers: "What a strangely consistent country this is," remarks his girlfriend about a Cambodian river that because of flooding, reverses its current twice a year. "Even the river lacks a clear sense of direction." Oddly, Dyer's narrative also loses its sense of direction in the final chapter, just as he reaches what he has described throughout...
There are few people I'd be inclined to join on a voyage of self-discovery. Fewer still if I knew that journey was heading for an existential train wreck. And in the first few pages of Geoff Dyer's Yoga for People Who Can't be Bothered to Do It, the warning signs that I am entering an author's exercise in angst-ridden navel gazing are all there. A quote by Nietzsche on the fly page. A preface that starts with a snippet from Auden and ends with a disclaimer: "Everything in this book really happened, but some...
...characters still challenge us." Ibsen's characters are usually required to make difficult choices, a theme Attenborough says mirrors society's struggle between its anarchic and restrictive instincts. Lady's Ellida must choose between her staid husband and a wild, mysterious sailor, and Richardson makes the role a journey into madness and back. The Master Builder must choose between a dangerous, young temptress and a safe descent into old age, and Stewart reaches tremulously into the character's insecurities. And Brand's eponymous preacher must choose to sacrifice everything, even wife and child, for his God, giving Fiennes an opportunity...
...Gawler, an avuncular, semi-retired flight engineer, is navigating my journey into deep childhood, starting with the shrubbery behind Hong Kong's Kowloon Bowling Green Club (KBGC). Gawler is one of its longest-standing members. "The fa wong [gardener] had a house here and a well," he says. "All the kids used to play here, remember...