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Junior captain Vince Porter skippered as junior Ruth Schlitz and senior Laura Schubert split time at crew in the Crimson’s A-division, finishing anywhere from first to 14th. The A-division took seventh, though their seventh was only a few points out of fourth place...
...Santa Fe Opera last week, two important premieres demonstrated just how potent eclecticism can be. John Eaton's The Tempest, with a libretto after Shakespeare by Music Critic Andrew Porter of The New Yorker, is a rich blend of Renaissance music, jazz and electronics that is surrounded by an uncompromisingly modernist microtonal framework. Another happily eclectic work, Hans Werner Henze's The English Cat, takes an anthropomorphic tale by English Playwright Edward Bond, based on Balzac, and sets it to music that freely ranges from kitschy consonance to acerbic dissonance. Both operas have the kind of unquestioned stylistic integrity that...
...with a stirring, cacophonous ensemble of clashing rhythms and timbres as all the major characters sing simultaneously and Prospero exults, "My high charms work!/ and these, mine enemies, are all knit up/ in their distractions. They are in my power." What Eaton has done is not merely to set Porter's concise, three-act libretto, but to retell it in musical terms, creating a cognate of Shakespeare's play. It is a formidable intellectual as well as musical accomplishment...
Wilson appears in an anti-drug commercial on TV. So does Cardinal Catcher Darrell Porter, who used to know twin demons, drugs and alcohol. Plainly, trouble visits the middle of the country too. The family of baseball, which like every other family has had its share of troubles during the past year but is working desperately to solve them, did as much advertising at this World Series as some breweries. Most of the jailed Royals and confessed Cardinals have been dispersed, but the third game opened pointedly with Immunized Witness Lonnie Smith in the batter's box facing his former...
...Porter says his mouth literally used to water at the sight of beer signs. He could smell the malt on billboards. So, next to bartending or wine testing, he could hardly have found a less temperate location than Busch Stadium for tempering his character. Throughout every game in St. Louis, the organist plays relentless beer jingles to which the spectators have been conditioned to clap in cadence. If Missouri is not the perfect place for tapering off at the World Series, it is certainly an ideal spot for the family of baseball to drink to its rehabilitation. --By Tom Callahan