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...naval architect, consulted admiralty charts of the harbor; he was struck by the similarity of Bennelong Point to the nearby Helsing?r-Elsinore peninsula, where Shakespeare set Hamlet. What eventually crystallized in his drawings was a raised plateau and airborne structures not unlike sails. In his original plans, the podium would house the backstage business; upstairs, the public spectacle would unfurl. Utzon is often cast by his critics as a Hamlet-like figure, a daydreamer unable to carry out his plans. This exhibition shows quite the opposite. When the shells at first proved too irregular to cast from cement, Utzon drew...
...that the BSO’s success in recruiting youth will rely largely on the number of unconventional pieces they play, not necessarily the events they hold in the community. He says the orchestra has shown noticeable improvement in this area since Levine gained the conductor’s podium...
...years ago, I knew John Kerry was going to run for president. Two years ago, he took the podium after easily winning reelection to the Senate and gave a scathing speech, complete with what was immediately Kerry’s tagline, “you don’t go to war because you want to; you go to war because you have to.” Not even Kerry’s measured delivery of that line has changed in two years...
...with 24 hours before election returns were to begin rolling in, there were still technical glitches to be worked out. A filing center for the media was lacking internet access and a special podium designated for Laura Bush, the First Lady, remained packed away in a crate...
...officer was dispatched to the New Research Building to take a report of a stolen Apple silver “G” laptop computer valued at $2,500. A podium valued at $700 was also damaged in the theft...