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...music: his Symphony No. 3, subtitled Symphony of Sorrowful Songs -- a transcendental meditation on mortality and redemption for orchestra and soprano. In three slow, slow, very slow movements lasting nearly an hour, it speaks of bleak despair yet sings of sublime hope. Against all odds, this deeply felt, quasi-liturgical piece -- composed 17 years ago but newly recorded -- is captivating a huge public on both sides of the Atlantic, far bigger than most serious compositions ever reach. It is at the top of the classical charts in the U.S. and Britain and, amazingly, has risen as high...
...Some council members ignore the fact that we do things wrong," Hanselman said. "The people on the committee will become quasi-experts on the topics they study while general members will forget all the research involved and attach their own amendments to the proposals...
...come. In the '60s and '70s Rzewski's Marxism was so fundamental to him that he hardly wrote a piece without a populist affirmation of some kind. And having early in his career sensed an incompatibility between his political views and any austerity of style, Rzewski gradually adopted a quasi-19th-century romantic idiom with the intention "to establish communication [with], rather than to alienate an audience." His most famous work is a brilliant hour-long set of diverse variations for piano on a Chilean leftist anthem, "The People United Will Never Be Defeated" (1975). In the late...
...killed tens of thousands and left Mogadishu in ruins. Because Aidid is a military officer, Ali Mahdi argues, he should be disqualified as a possible future leader of the country. "We do not want another general in charge of Somalia," he says, referring to Mohammed Siad Barre, whose corrupt, quasi- Marxist regime was overthrown in January 1991 after Ali Mahdi, Aidid and others joined forces...
Princeton is 6-3 overall on the year, including close games against such quasi-powers such as Texas (a 63-53 loss), South Carolina (a 51-40 win), Illinois (a 58-50 loss) and North Carolina St. (a 50-41 win). The team's only true drubbing came from Washington St. (72-49), the school...