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...live in an age that's gushing with information and dizzying possibilities. You can almost feel your brain cells crackling to keep up with the choices?trivial and profound???that confront us at every turn: picking a cell-phone plan or an on-demand movie, selecting the best mix of investments in a 401(k) or the right health plan or just knowing which eggs to buy at the supermarket. (Cage free? Organic? Omega-3 enriched?) Surely there has never been a greater need to stay alert and informed, to act shrewdly and remain focused...
Composer Jean Sibelius is a hero to all Finns, most Englishmen and many Americans. His music is heavy enough to sound profound???something like the work of a rural and obstinate Brahms. It seemed revolutionary in the 1900s, daring in the teens, peculiar in the '20s, old-fashioned in the '30s. Since then it has suffered a kind of honorable obsolescence. Sibelius' last major work was published in 1926, when he was 61. Most of today's critics, finding they have nothing new to say about the music, simply muse about those tough, craggy Sibelius characteristics that remind people...
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