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...American art song is still alive and well, judging by this lovely CD, on which a studioful of opera stars, including Renee Fleming, Sylvia McNair and Frederica von Stade, performs 26 songs by Californian Heggie, who is currently adapting Dead Man Walking for the San Francisco Opera. Heggie sets poems in English by poets old (Emily Dickinson) and new (Philip Littell) in the Samuel Barber/Ned Rorem manner--agreeably lyrical, unambiguously tonal--and his big-league cast responds with obvious relish...
What?s another few hundred million when you?re talking about Texas football? Energy billionaire Robert McNair was oilman-frank about how he brought the NFL back to Houston ?- by going "higher than any reasonable person would go" with a negotiations-ending $700 million bid for a franchise. "We knew we differentiated ourselves," he said. Result? Two groups (one led by Hollywood power broker Mike Ovitz) that wanted to bring a team back to oft-abandoned Los Angeles are going home unhappy. And the price of a sports team ? which these days comes with the additional cost of the kind...
...second largest media market; Houston is the 11th. Both cities have shed teams in recent years ? the Oilers left Houston in 1996, and both the Rams (in 1995) and Raiders (in 1994) have found it too hard to make a go of it in L.A. But it was McNair that came up with $195 million in public financing for his $310 million new stadium. It?s a sign of community interest that neither of the L.A. groups could come up with in blas? La-La Land, and to NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue, it?s a sign that football...
Growing up in segregated Birmingham, she recalls hardly knowing that white people existed. Then, in 1963, her friend Denise McNair was killed in the church bombing that helped ignite the civil rights movement. The family moved out of Alabama, eventually relocating to Denver. But living under Jim Crow instilled in Rice an astonishing resilience. "I came out of that not bitter but with a sense of entitlement," she says, "to do whatever I wanted to do, to be whoever I wanted...
...narrative and moral center of 4 Little Girls is Chris McNair, Denise's father. Her mother and the relatives of the other victims provide heartbreaking testimony, but McNair has a gravity that provides ballast for the entire film. When, with his rich voice, he recalls how he explained to Denise why she couldn't eat at a segregated cafeteria, or discusses his favorite picture of her (taken with her Brownie camera in her bedroom as she clutches a blond doll), he conveys both deep pain and resoluteness...