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...Sakhalin Island, off the coast of Siberia, to a Rumanian Gypsy mother and a Swiss-Mongolian father. Reared in Peking and Paris, he was a cabaret singer and circus acrobat before becoming an actor, arriving in the U.S. in 1941 and making his Broadway debut in the 1946 Lute Song. He brought his bald-pated, brooding persona to three dozen films, most notably The Ten Commandments (1956), The Brothers Karamazov (1958) and The Magnificent Seven...
...erect as though charged with static electricity, quivering like Rousseau's own paintbrush; the swollen, white Melies moon; the black nomad like a toppled statue, her feet with their pink toenails gravely sticking up; the djellaba, with its rippling stripes of coral, Naples yellow, cerulean; and the lute, like a pale lunar egg, hanging on the brown sand as the moon hangs in the blue night. Reproduced a millionfold, this oneiric image became the Guernica of the tots, the standard decor of upper-middle-class childhood. Such fame, decanted on a single picture, can distort an artist's entire reputation...
Sitting in his office surrounded by pictures of the native singers and a guale, a lute. Lord explains how the recordings were made. "We would go to a village, find the coffeehouse or tavern and ask the tavern-keeper who sings there," Lord recalls. "We would talk with the singers and gradually introduce the recording equipment," he adds...
...masterwork after masterwork, there was little need to revive the past. But as the musical repertory gradually evolved into a monument to the 19th century, inquiring performers began to look backward. Arnold Dolmetsch (1858-1940), an English musician and instrumentmaker, rediscovered the nearly forgotten world of the viol, lute and clavichord, and Harpsichordist Wanda Landowska almost singlehanded shattered the romantic tradition of performing Bach on the piano. "You play Bach your way," she once told a colleague, "and I'll play...
...Iowa. Not content with returning seven of the ten players from last year's 21-7 squad. Iowa coach Lute Olson came away from the recruiting wars with the high school players of the year from Illinois. Ohio and Iowa, and the junior college player of the year for the whole country. The Hawkeyes don't have the big names that Kentucky, North Carolina and UCLA do, but look for them to be in the finals at the Superdome just the same...