Word: masterworks
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...Symphony No. 2] is such an iconic piece that I think people who may not even typically enjoy classical music will find this to be a breathtaking performance.” Beyond the exceptional amount of time required to practice this orchestral masterwork, the four groups have also had to jump over logistical hurdles in their preparation. “It’s almost kind of an unwritten fire-hazard to get everyone on stage,” says Christine L. Barron ’09, the current president of HRO. The roughly 300 members of the combined groups...
...DIED. Gillo Pontecorvo, 86, Oscar-nominated Italian director; in Rome. A resistance leader in World War II, Pontecorvo's war experiences informed his 1965 masterwork The Battle of Algiers, which depicted the brutal reality of the 1950s Algerian uprising against French colonial rule. While the documentary-style film won three Oscar nominations and the Golden Lion at the 1966 Venice Film Festival, French authorities-outraged by its depiction of torture by French troops-banned it until...
...have to say that the most recent offering from Canada’s Junior Boys’ turns a neat trick: reestablishing and sustaining familiar tonal palette over the course of an entire album while eluding the joint specter of drudgery and repetition.Yet rather than a sprawling masterwork, “So This is Goodbye” is a cohesive album, whose melodic bass lines issue taut rejoinders to lazy keyboard echoes, delicate synth arpeggios, and efficient percussion—complete with judicious handclaps, especially on “First Time” (alas, sans cowbell).Despite the album?...
...world premiere of Peter Sculthorpe's Requiem for choir and orchestra in Adelaide, the audience was respectfully poised for what was expected to be a masterwork from this father of modern Australian composition. What began to issue from the stage was suitably piquant, with cello passages that seemed to weep in waterfalls of sound. Then, in the second movement, something miraculous occurred. Walking slowly from the back of the hall toward the stage came a gentle giant of a man, his 1.9-m bulk wrapped around a hollowed tree trunk into which he breathed. Sculthorpe's music at once expanded...
...discussion of Remembrance of Things Past with a flirtatious male don, for winning him a place at Cambridge. Here he repays the favor with a Proustian portrait of his hero, adding layer upon layer of sometimes miscellaneous information, in vaguely chronological order. Though Proust always insisted his masterwork was not a roman à clef, Davenport-Hines shows the parallels between Proust and his fictional narrator, real figures and the fabricated ones. Born in Paris to a rich Jewish mother and a Catholic physician father, Proust was a nervous, asthmatic child who grew up to be, in Davenport-Hines' phrase...