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Little more than a decade ago, she was teaching general music in the Cincinnati public school system to unruly fourth, fifth and sixth graders. Today her audiences range across the world's music capitals right up to the Vatican. Kathleen Battle is the best lyric coloratura soprano in the world. Engaged regularly by the finest orchestras in the U.S. and Europe, and with a thriving recital career under way, she is so good that opera producers now call for a Kathy Battle voice when casting the roles that are her specialty...
Widowers' Houses, by George Bernard Shaw, Lyric Stage, Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays at 8, Saturdays at 5 and 8:30, and Sundays at 3, through...
Widowers' Houses, by George Bernard Shaw, Lyric Stage, Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays at 8, Saturdays at 5 and 8:30, and Sundays at 3, through...
...sauna in his home and threatened to fire overweight officials unless they got into shape in a matter of weeks. Shevardnadze has said his hobbies are beekeeping and tending his private vineyard. He is well read in the Russian and Georgian classics and has even scribbled a bit of lyric poetry. Shevardnadze and his wife Nanuli, a journalist, have a daughter Manana, in her 30s, and a son Paata, in his late 20s, but as Nanuli once confided to Borodin, family life takes a backseat to her husband's work. "He's a true Leninist," she said of Eduard Shevardnadze...
Townshend, an editor for London publisher Faber & Faber, can be lyric and affecting, but too often he is portentous: "Almost as soon as the window had misted up, a great blast of steam wafted into the street. Pete felt like the witness to some awesome nuclear test of devastating power . . . We were the frayed rubber band inside the enormous balsa-wood airplane of rock and roll...