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...born composer and associate of George Grosz and Paul Klee, who died at age 48 in 1942 in the Wulzburg camp; Vitezslava Kapralova, a Czech-born pianist and conducting student of Charles Munch, who, only 25, perished in 1940 of tuberculosis while attempting to get to America; and Gideon Klein, another Czech composer, who died in 1945 at the age of 25 after trips to Theresienstadt, Auschwitz and Furstengrubbe...
...Klein completed the first movement of his Duo for Violin and Cello in November 1941, a month before he was sent to Theresienstadt. There he took part in the camp's Potemkin-village cultural scene, writing in a camp publication that "people who never lived here will look at the number of musical events here with wonder and amazement." He never finished the second movement: two minutes and 35 seconds into the lento, the music is cut off in mid-measure, mute testimony to catastrophe, as eloquent as any note ever written...
...Quartet and other New England-based musicians are brisk and idiomatic. But such considerations are almost irrelevant in light of the music's larger issues. "If we consider the demands of the programs, together with the strains on the artists who live in new surroundings under unpleasant conditions," wrote Klein, "we will understand that these artistic efforts are not solely to be judged by the standards of a % metropolitan critic." History is now the judge...
...content of popular culture has been a favorite target among politicians caught up in the culture wars, but kids themselves have their own criticisms of what they see. Many recoil at the sexual pressures they feel from Calvin Klein ads, MTV, heavy-breathing movies, all the icy, staged or oddball sex they see in books by Madonna and rock videos. "If you turn on TV, there's a woman taking off her clothes," says Marcela Avila, a senior at Santa Monica High, who was among a group of students who sat down with TIME's Jim Willwerth to discuss...
...Klein cautioned that a large amount of research still lies ahead. SOD is just one player, albert "a bigger piece than we've ever had before," she said, but scientists are still searching for other altered genes responsible for cases of familial ALS not present in the current sample...