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...concert began with Stravinsky’s Orpheus, a ballet in three scenes based on classical mythology. The story focuses on Orpheus, who mourns the death of Eurydice, but then convinces Pluto to let him be reunited with her in the land of Hades. Orpheus neglects to follow Pluto’s rules and Eurydice dies on the way out of the underworld, while Orpheus is also killed upon returning to earth. Stravinsky wrote the ballet in Hollywood in 1947 and first conducted it with the BSO in 1949. The melancholy of the tale is reflected in the minor dissonances...
Eddie Murphy will head to the moon this month for a serious rescue mission. He must save Pluto Nash, a movie in danger of collapsing under its own inertia. Nash, a sci-fi comedy featuring Murphy as a lunar-nightclub owner, wrapped a year ago, and was originally scheduled for an April 6 release by Warner Bros.' Castle Rock division. Then it was bumped to the fall. Now it's consigned to the wintry abyss of Jan. 18. Maybe. Producer Martin Bregman (The Bone Collector), who's had Nash in development for 20 years, blames the delay on getting...
...Without Pluto, the minds of a generation of schoolchildren raised on a steady diet of nine planets would go hungry. What will happen to the familiar "My Very Energetic Mother Just Served Us Nine..." Nine what? Kuiper Belt objects? No good mother would serve her children those...
...demoting Pluto would be even more grave for our spirit of discovery. Ever since Galileo trained his telescope on Jupiter and sighted, to his amazement, four Medicean stars never before seen with human eyes--ever since then we have been searching for new lights in the heavens. The discovery of Pluto inspired children's dreams of one day finding the newest Planet...
...late to seek a newer world. Let us save Pluto, the planet we have loved, and save the dream of planets yet unknown...