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Harvard Fullback and Aspiring Opera Singer Noah Van Neil...
...Rudy”—because it’s an underdog story, and Opera and Football both love an underdog. Plus it’s got an easy but powerful chorus part: “Rudy! Rudy! Rudy!” Classic story of blue-collar people that is fueled by raw human emotion? Puccini...
...planet near the star Sirius, and for fans of his abstract, complex music, it was a plausible theory. He made his name in the 1950s as a pioneer of electronic sound and went on to compose such big, vivid pieces as Light, a 29-hour, seven-part opera that took him 30 years to finish, and Groups, played by three separate orchestral ensembles at once. An influence on musicians from John Lennon to Bjrk, Stockhausen made news in 2001 for a comment suggesting that the 9/11 attacks were a work of art. Stunned by the uproar, he apologized. Stockhausen...
...Bless America.” ‘Cause we all know that the game’s not over until the fullback sings. “I got goose bumps,” says Murphy. Van Niel’s experience as an opera-singing fullback (or perhaps a football-playing lyric tenor) recently captured the interest of the national media. The sudden attention surprised Van Niel. “It’s kind of funny,” he says. “I was doing these things before...and I’ll be doing them...
Their story unraveled with the melodrama and economy of a soap opera. And on Sunday morning, with every exotic plot twist and incredible detail seemingly exhausted, it reached its end. John Darwin, the missing kayaker who resurfaced, claiming amnesia, more than five years after apparently drowning, and his wife, Anne, are now both in custody...