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There's a reason that people, having waited 16 years, are now flocking to the theaters in droves, despite critics' warnings and often for multiple showings. There's a reason people waited in line for days and skipped work on opening day. "Star Wars," unlike many things in our thoroughly secularized, rationalized, over-analyzed world, firmly believes in and openly defends the idea of something greater, something beyond ourselves. Just a movie...
Brendel's playing is distinguished by its heightened intellectual and emotional intensity, by his ability to energize details while sustaining taut lines, by his infallible grasp of musical architecture and by his extraordinary empathy with composers. His performances often achieve a sense of inevitability. Surely, a listener feels, this is what the composer intended...
Take, for instance, the cadenza in the first movement of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 1. Other pianists too often drift from the Classical period provenance of the concerto, when cadenzas were improvised, and play the cadenza with a near seamless bravura that is more suited to the concertos of the Romantic composers, thereby losing its sense of extemporaneous drama--and obscuring many of Beethoven's boldest, and funniest, inspirations. Not Brendel, whose subtle emphases, infinitesimal pauses and canny modulations of tempo, color and dynamics create an air of spontaneous adventure. He reclaims the cadenza's magnificent audacity and evokes...
...quirky poems featured a cast of rogues ranging from the unruly Dancing Pants to the unsanitary Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout (who "would not take the garbage out"). He also wrote the lyrics to several hits, including Cover of "Rolling Stone" and A Boy Named Sue, and nine plays, often working in conjunction with David Mamet. DIED. MEG GREENFIELD, 68, longtime editor of the Washington Post editorial page and Newsweek columnist; of cancer; in Washington (see EULOGY...
...Spring often inspires people to get out and see the country. Some just want to see more of it than others. These folks have chosen some pretty strange ways of getting around. Still, they have their reasons...