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...dead years ago"), Ruggles wrote out atonal works with crayon on brown wrapping paper. Though he was a notoriously slow worker and a painstaking perfectionist-only eight pieces that require a total of 90 minutes to perform survive him-his sober tone poem Sun Treader is considered a modern masterwork...
...Lander, 66, Scandinavian ballet master and choreographer who helped mold the Royal Danish Ballet into one of the world's greatest troupes; of leukemia; in Copenhagen. During his 19 years as ballet master, the former dancer choreographed such highly praised productions as La Valse, Spring, and his modern masterwork, Etudes. In 1951 scandal ended the Danish phase of his career; he was accused of taking liberties with ballerinas and forced to resign. Instead of retiring, he went to France and was soon appointed ballet master at the Paris Opera...
...began to write his masterwork in the German trenches in the Balkans, where he was serving out the last days of World War I. He sent it home in letters to his mother. Mustered out, Franz Rosenzweig finished Der Stern der Erlösung (The Star of Redemption) in February 1919, just six months after he started it; the book was published two years later in Frankfurt. Since then it has become one of the dominant works of Jewish thought in the 20th century, ranking with those of Martin Buber (I and Thou), a friend of Rosenzweig's. Thanks...
...years ago, the bubbly Mme. Benoist sold only four madeleines a week. "In the past three weeks," she says, "we've sold 1,000. We had to hire another apprentice." Many of those who buy the little cakes (at 12? apiece) are foreigners, for Proust's masterwork has been translated into 17 languages, including Finnish, Japanese and Serbo-Croatian. Mme. Benoist remarks: "If this keeps up, I'll have to learn English, German, Italian, and whatever it is that the Japanese and Chinese both speak...
Poetasters may now join the technologically unemployed: these freaky fragments belong to The Meditation of IBM 7094-7040 DCS, the masterwork of a computer. It is flawed poetry, full of silly similes and mixed metaphors. Still, Yale English Professor Marie Borroff has undeniably tutored a binary bard...