Word: pastorales
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Schwarz-Bart sets the foundations for his novel far away from Guadeloupe, in the West Africa of the Diolas. They live "in a calm and intricate estuary landscape, where the clean water of a river, the green water of an ocean, and the black water of a delta channel mingled...
Romantic for Solti means a predominance of German and Austrian music (ranging all the way from Haydn to Wagner, Mahler and Strauss), plus an orchestral tone that is big and red-blooded but not as luxuriant, say, as the Philadelphia Orchestra under Eugene Ormandy. As much as he relishes the...
Mating Dance. Now that the church and the order are trying to understand and learn from the world, many Jesuits are disoriented, looking in vain for the old landmarks: the triumphalist faith, the proud discipline. The tight old Jesuit houses offer little solace. Deserted by the young and the adventurous...
Marionettes. A marionette show, including "Bastien and Bastienne," a pastoral opera Mozart wrote at some ridiculously early age in a successful attempt to show he could come up with the Eroica Symphony's theme. 7:30 and 9 p.m., in Room 401 of the Carpenter Center.
Hoagland, a 40-year-old New Yorker with 100 unposted acres in Vermont and one of the finest prose styles in any state, thinks that people have rights to untrammeled nature in the same way they have to religious freedom. Enjoyment means some trammeling, however, and at times Hoagland seems...