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Marie-Claire Alain returns to Harvard to play the Fisk organ at Memorial Church. She is one of the world's great organists and will be worth hearing...
...Eventually transplanted to the New World, the Reform movement drew strength from the pluralism of the U.S. Newly arrived German immigrants, eager to prove their Americanism, continued to reshape traditional Jewish customs and worship toward the image of Protestantism. The vernacular replaced Hebrew as the principal language of worship; organ music and Sunday services became widely popular. Confirmation replaced the bar mitzvah; dietary restrictions were relaxed. While Orthodox Jews continued to pray, in the traditional phrase, for their return "next year" to Jerusalem, Reform Jews became anti-Zionist, awaiting instead a "universal" kingdom...
...group will be on the lookout for melodious menageries that may be headed for the electric saw. Is there still room in the American imagination for the quaint, circling beauty of a carousel aglitter with colored glass and alive with organ music? "The carousel is an art form," says Fried, "the greatest mobile. I consider them to be like great American landmarks...
...acute liver failure has included such cumbersome techniques as replacing the patient's entire blood supply by transfusion, or filtering the blood through the liver of a pig or baboon. These procedures are designed to relieve the liver of the task of cleansing the blood, giving the organ an opportunity to regenerate itself. But all of them are unreliable, and even when a patient gets well, there is often doubt that his recovery has been significantly aided by the treatment...
Pablo's father was the church organist in the town of Vendrell some 40 miles from Barcelona, and the young Pablo grew up with music. He was playing the piano at four, the violin at seven, the organ at nine. At eleven he heard a cello for the first time when a traveling trio visited Vendrell. "I felt as if I could not breathe. There was something so tender, beautiful and human about the sound. A radiance filled...