Word: mann
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They didn't laugh when he sat down at the Steinway, but then for a change, they weren't supposed to. Last week Dudley Moore, 48, made his Carnegie Hall debut as a full-dress, classical pianist. Joining his friend, Violinist Robert Mann, 62, Cellist Nathaniel Rosen, 36, and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra under the baton of Conductor-Violinist Pinchas Zukerman, 34, Moore offered a sensitive, well-paced performance of Beethoven's Triple Concerto. And he played it straight, until the very end. Then, just before heading offstage for a congratulatory hug from his longtime squeeze...
...Thomas Mann and Bertolt Brecht were among the most gifted writers of their time. Artist Max Ernst made surrealism accessible to a generation. The architects-in-exile of the Bauhaus, led by Walter Gropius and Mies van der Rohe, changed the face of the American city. Middle European Physicists Albert Einstein, Hans Bethe and Edward Teller became the ambivalent stepfathers of the atomic...
...Trotsky was killed with a pickax, you know. I imagine some day John Carpenter will make a movie of it." Emily Mann, the play's director, is alive to both the passion and the ambiguities in each man's argument and, by staging the piece at a ferocious pace, demonstrates that the drama of ideas can be the most exalted of blood sports...
...three acts and at 2½ hours, A Weekend Near Madison might benefit from losing ten or 15 minutes and one offstage death. But even in its present form, as directed by Mann and performed by a pristine ensemble, Playwright Tolan's work radiates promise and achievement. Its theme, of community under pressure, also helps define this Louisville weekend, where actors may appear in three or four different plays, turn their talent to playwrighting and even schmooze with the critics. The beleaguered American theater can take hope from these artists, all stretching to see the same horizon...
...wall of Levine's apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side is a framed quotation from Thomas Mann's novella The Tables of the Law, given to the conductor by his longtime live-in companion, Sue Thomson. It reads, in part: "Mighty and long labor lay ahead, labor which would have to be achieved through anger and patience before the uncouth hordes could be formed into a people who would be more than the usual community to whom the ordinary was comfortable ..." Too often, there is an air of comfortable ordinariness about the Met, such as casting...