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...most serious and tragic authors of this century, at the same time a humorist?" I think that whoever does not laugh when reading his novels...does not understand them." Havel's 1984 play, "Largo Desolato: A Play in Seven Scenes," presents the comic and hauntingly Kafkaesque world of Professor Leopold, a philosopher who has gotten into "trouble" for expounding on "intellectual hooliganism" in a recent treatise...
Creative writing is "one of many things in the mix, and not an immediate priority," department chair Leopold Damrosch said earlier this year...
...engagement is blessed, however, with the crisp, lush American Symphony Orchestra, founded by Leopold Stokowski, who conducted 1940's Fantasia. A different local symphony will play at each stop, one of the nicer goals of the enterprise being to increase appreciation for the nation's orchestras. Stoky would have liked that...
Another irony is that in the '30s, when the repertoire became codified, prominent conductors like Sergei Koussevitzky in Boston and Leopold Stokowski in Philadelphia were far more adventurous than their contemporary counterparts. Koussevitzky, the Russian-born bassist turned maestro, commissioned and performed dozens of new works by American composers, and Stokowski routinely surprised his audience with major premieres of challenging works, such as Alban Berg's opera Wozzeck. As the recent history of opera in America has shown, there are large untapped audiences hungering for something new. But as long as symphonies insist on treating their customers to the same...
Swoon, another fable of a vicious, failed crime, renounces the garish naturalism of Reservoir Dogs. Swoon is artifice aspiring to art. So was the 1924 atrocity it portrays. When Nathan Leopold (Craig Chester) and Richard Loeb (Daniel Schlachet), two rich young homosexuals, murdered the child Bobby Franks, they were creating a portrait of themselves: powerful elitists, unsullied by the vulgarity of conscience. Director Kalin -- a comer -- is smart enough not to explain the murderers. Instead, in a chiaroscuro cinema style that suggests morgue photos taken by Cecil Beaton, he presents the pair as stars of their own camp pageant...