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POPE JOHN PAUL II was teetering on the edge of obscurity. His last album, the well-reviewed, new-agey Abba Pater (which did not contain a Dancing Queen cover), came out more than a year ago. And as every big pop act knows, waiting too long between releases is a bad career move. Luckily, John Paul's follow-up record is on the way. World Voice 2000, due out in September, will feature original prayers penned by the Holy Father and read by a list of stars that could double as the cast for Cannonball Run III, including JAMES EARL...
...late March, Pope John Paul II will release his debut CD, Abba Pater, featuring original music, prayers and chants. What are the Pontiff's odds of cracking the American market? We compared him with other top sellers...
...aspires to the condition of music, as Walter Pater wrote, then all movement and gesture surely aspire to the condition of dance. The infant in its crib, rhythmically waving arms and legs, is, in a sense, a baby Balanchine. A shaman of Nigeria's Yoruba tribe summoning ancestral spirits to the beat of throbbing drums and Mikhail Baryshnikov executing a triple tour en l'air are both paradigms of poetry in action...
...James, from Keats to Edgar Allan Poe, Canova haunted the imagination of writers, especially American ones. In fact the subject of Canova and America is large and includes such curiosities as a series of Canova sculptures of George Washington, naked as a jaybird, in the role of the classical pater patriae. Canova worked for politicians, princes, Popes and bankers, all of whom concurred that he was the modern Phidias. Now he is unloved, except by fans and specialists whose enthusiasm tends to be mistaken for some kind of fetishism. The mid-19th century shift to realism, away from the neoclassical...
Blessed with a private income from his parents in Lancaster, Pa., coddled in childhood, lame, diabetic, vain, insecure and brilliantly talented, Demuth lacked neither admirers nor colleagues. He was well read, his tastes formed by Pater, Huysmans, Maeterlinck and the Yellow Book, and he gravitated to Greenwich Village as a Cafe Royal dandy in embryo. Perhaps the main reason Demuth has not been seen in depth before is that some of the paintings that meant the most to him were not thought exhibitable. For Demuth was homosexual; not a flaming queen, in fact rather a discreet gay, but still loath...