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...temperance movement flared up again in the 1985 when Gorbachev launched an all-out campaign to eradicate drunkenness, revoking liquor licenses, banning vodka consumption at Soviet embassies and razing vineyards (Russia also makes wine), earning himself the nickname Mineral'nyi Sekretar ("The Mineral Water Secretary.") (See pictures of Denver, Beer Country...
What do you hope to accomplish by eliminating the n-word? -Robert C. Smith in Garden City, NYI think people misunderstand the stance. It is crucial that rappers have the chance to express the truth that is in their heart. But I don't think that rappers are part of this debate. This debate is about corporations and other corporations. This debate is about the sponsors and the people who are concerned and the people who have a business to protect. But the artists' rights have to be protected. Sometimes America can go so far that people's rights...
...siblings Timothy (violin), Janet (violin), David (cello), and Phillip (viola), the Department of Music’s Blodgett Artists-in-Residence successfully displayed their virtuoso abilities in the performance through a selection of pieces by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Paul Moravec ’79, and Ernst von Dohnányi...
Dohnányi's strength lies in warm but unsentimentalized interpretations of an essentially Central European repertoire. His love of contemporary music is already clear in his Cleveland programming: on a U.S. tour last month, he offered a ravishing performance of Arnold Schoenberg's unfinished atonal oratorio, Die Jakobsleiter (Jacob's Ladder), and an impassioned reading of Alban Berg's twelve-tone Violin Concerto, with Soloist Itzhak Perlman. The most recent Severance Hall program featured the late-Romantic composer Hans Pfitzner's Violin Concerto, a work rarely heard outside Germany. Yet Dohnanyi is also strong...
Although the Clevelanders played well under the rather remote Maazel, neither they nor the city renewed the intense personal commitment they had to Szell and may have with Dohnányi. "We're still on our honeymoon," cautions Kenneth Haas, the orchestra's general manager. "But there is no way you can escape the electricity among the musicians...