Word: modernes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Meanwhile, Elkies' musicial compositions have been published, performed professionally and awarded several major prizes. His reputation as a gifted modern composer has advanced throughout New England and beyond. A bass-baritone and piano accompanist for Harvard Glee Club, he continues to compose music under the direction of Rosen Professor of Music Leon Kirchner...
...PASTORAL LANDSCAPE, National Gallery of Art and the Phillips Collection, Washington. In this joint venture, the National offers "The Legacy of Venice," two centuries of painting from Giorgione (a progenitor of the pastoral genre) to Watteau, while the Phillips, in "The Modern Vision," carries the theme from Constable down to Matisse. Through...
...works can fit any format: modern comedy (Bill Murray in Scrooged), musical cartoon (the Disney gang' s Oliver & Company) or period piece (Christine Edzard' s daunting six hours of Little Dorrit...
...homilies and fantasy purred up against sentimentality. But not until now has the studio based a cartoon musical feature on a Dickens tale. It was worth the wait. Oliver & Company is Dickens with a twist, and Disney with a treat. Turning Fagin's gang into canines, transporting them to modern Manhattan and embroidering the scene with street vendors and Tiffany dog tags, the picture makes for a luscious comic valentine to New York City...
Michael Fancher, executive editor of the Seattle Times, is the very model of a modern newspaper editor. At his publisher's urging, Fancher completed an M.B.A. program at the University of Washington before taking over the newsroom in 1986. He insists that the degree was not meant to groom him for a future job on the business side of the paper but to make him a better editor. "Editors need to be involved with people in other departments to win their support for the content," he explains. "A lot of journalists feel that the journalistic significance of what...