Word: parise
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Toai reached Paris in late 1977, he brought with him a document with what he asserted to be the signatures of 48 other political prisoners, many of them former NLF members, detailing the oppression in Vietnamese prisons and urging international condemnation of the Hanoi government. A number of groups...
But now in Paris, the opera world's most tantalizing other shoe has finally dropped. The Paris Opera presented the first-ever full-length Lulu, third act and all. To Rolf Liebermann, the Paris Opéra's general director, it was the culmination of a 30-year...
The triumph of the production was that it laid out the full span of Berg's intricate, marvelous score, seamlessly completed by Viennese Composer Friedrich Cerha. It was given an exhilarating performance by Boulez, with notably precise, transparent playing by the Paris Opera orchestra.
The practiced listener cannot take in all these subtleties. But anyone can feel them - and feel is the word. Faithful as he was to the atonal vision of his mentor Schoenberg, Berg never left behind the yearning romanticism of Mahler and Wagner. Lulu retains a spontaneous, passionate life of its...
The 84 literary periodicals recalled in this lively chronicle range from Partisan Review, left-wing and loudly ideological at its birth in 1934, to Paris Review, a sleek '50s expatriate now based in New York. An entry on John Crowe Ransom reports that the poet started the Kenyon Review...