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...Ra--Jonathan Swift...
...Ra--Jonathan Swift...
Just like when TV networks pit recent movies against Monday Night Football, this effluence of jazz activity will force some hard and painful decisions. Close to home, Jonathan Swift's is hosting two events of particular interest this week. Sunday and Monday they will present Sun Ra and his Intergalactic Arkestra, a happening by any standard. Sun Ra is simply outrageous; his age and background are unclear, but he wanders around our planet saying things like: The intergalactic music in its present phase of presentation will be correlative to the key synopsis of the past and to the uncharted multipotential...
...Paris, the opera world's most tantalizing other shoe has finally dropped. The Paris Opera presented the first-ever full-length Lulu, third act and all. To Rolf Liebermann, the Paris Opéra's general director, it was the culmination of a 30-year quest. To Conductor Pierre Boulez, it was belated "justice to a work that has been mutilated." To the black-tie audience of statesmen, artistic leaders, 200 music critics and assorted opera buffs, it was a triumph and, to some, a perplexity...
Hughes vividly remembers the shock of seeing his first great building. Says he: "I had been taught to respect only the austere International Style of architects like Le Corbusier, and I should have considered the Paris Opéra to be inflated and vulgar. Instead, as I walked into that gilded whale, I felt like Jonah being swallowed by the great fish. The Opéra is a stately, generous building that makes you feel that you are the one to whom the structure is directed...