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...this activity was powerless, however, to put interest into Brahms Ave Maria for women's chorus and orchestra. Like the Siefried Idyll, it is pretty and pleasant, but dull. More than most composers, Brahms wrote music that varied from the great to the mediocre, and this piece is not one of his best. The performance was up to the music, competent, but a bit yawn-inducing...
...Jose Maria de Eça de Queiroz (1845-1900) presents a claim to fame that is also a patent of obscurity. He is the major novelist of a minor language: Portuguese. A scrawny chap with big buck teeth and a hook nose, Eça de Queiroz (pronounced Essa de Kay-rozh) spent most of his life as a Portuguese consul in London and Paris, fell under the spell of Flaubert and Zola, wrote a stack of realistic novels that appalled the provincial Portuguese and impressed some literate Parisians but missed fire in America. In 1962, however, a translation...
...calculated terror have today. In the last century, Byron, Shelley, Keats and a whole generation of young poets haunted by romanticism and tuberculosis could be "half in love with easeful Death," wooing it as they would woo a woman. Even before World War I, German Poet Rainer Maria Rilke could still yearn for "the great death" for which a man prepares himself, rather than the "little" death for which he is unprepared...
...York Herald Tribune's Eugenia Sheppard, "I am known as the bicycle girl. I can't drive a car." Not one of those things her husband makes, anyway. "I used to drive in Italy with a small, little car," explained the former Maria Cristina Vettore Austin, "but over here I don't even try. American cars look too big on me." Nowadays Cristina just leaps onto Stepson Edsel's bike and tools around Grosse Pointe. Sometimes, when he's home from work, Henry pedals along behind...
...Hear. Some performers, like Van Cliburn and Maria Callas, have resisted the "dehumanization" of tape splicing, prefer to leave in the clinkers to preserve the spontaneous thrust of a live performance. Says one violinist-Name me the recording that can give you the electricity, the magnetic quality that you get from a great live performance. It's like hearing Laurence Olivier instead of actually seeing him play Hamlet." But soon, with new video-audio tapes now under development the home audience will see Olivier as well as hear...