Word: manne
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...opening of Benjamin Britten's latest opera, Death in Venice, poses the question of why no composer has previously tried to set Thomas Mann's writings to music. One reason may be that his themes were often heavily bourgeois. On the other hand, Mann's tales were frequently structured like musical compositions-ranging from the symphonic patterns of The Magic Mountain to the leitmotivs of Death in Venice, which would seem to be eminently transformable into opera. Britten has done just that, and the result is brilliant...
...centerpiece of the current Aldeburgh Festival, Britten's Death in Venice is a spare, cerebral music drama that remains faithful to Mann's image-laden tale of frustrated pederasty. Along with Librettist Myfanwy Piper, he has succeeded in drawing a sense of intense theatrical conflict from Mann's static interior monologue...
Also elected were: Christopher R. Conte of Lowell House and Olympia, Wash.; Jeffrey H. Davidson of Dudley House and Cambridge; Alan Dean of Leverett House and Elmhurst, N.Y.: Ronald A. Dieck-mann of Winthrop House and Cincinnati, Ohio; E.J. Dionne of Adams House and Fall River; Donald S. Elfendein of Winthrop House and Harrisburg, Pa.; and, Jonathan G. Falk of Dunster House and Morristown...
...enshrining education, Mann built upon a Western tradition rooted in the Enlightenment. John Locke believed that all minds at birth were blank slates and all children were equally and infinitely educable. To Rousseau, education made men good, and through them made society better. But for the most part in England and France those notions remained only ideals, kept from fulfillment by the twin barriers of social class and privilege. In the New World, however, they flowered into a secular religion. Ragged immigrants were supposed to be molded into Americans through their education, which provided even the poorest child with...
...ensure top jobs, colleges and universities must offer students far more than credentials. They must become more concerned with enhancing their students' lives -with helping a Maynard find wisdom or an Alsop acquire seasoning. Education may not be "the great equalizer of the conditions of men," as Horace Mann hoped, but it can still serve as a "balance-wheel of society" if it offers students different routes to follow according to their individual abilities and aspirations...