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...Dead Language”). The only real disappointment came with “Il Vecchio Castello” (“The Old Castle”). The simple, lilting 6/8 trochaic rhythm was stretched out with too much rubato, completely obliterating the evocations of Medieval troubadours and trouvères. Despite this flaw, Kissin still managed to play one of the most problematic and unidiomatic piano works like it was the easiest thing in the world, without changing a single note (unlike Horowitz, whose infamous reworking of Pictures remains controversial to this...
This small-scale production of The Maids starts truly in medias res, with the action kicking into high gear, and never slowing, once one enters the creative set/theater/stage. The simple set is truly a wonder, providing the perfect arena for the maids’ stealthy, furtive dialogue, in which the audience glimpses scenes that the characters believe are secreted...
Seger is part of a new sisterhood of soul. In recent months, a wave of promising R.-and-B. divas has hit the radio and video airwaves, including big-voiced newcomer Alicia Keys (Songs in A Minor), neo-soul singer Res (How I Do) and soul-rock crooner Nikka Costa (Like a Feather, the single from her recently released album Everybody Got Their Something, is one of the year's catchiest songs). All these young soul crooners make music that's tinged with rap rhythms: the hip-hop gives their work an edge, while the soul makes...
...team to the Languedoc to find a vineyard where the winemaker could produce its own high-quality vintage. The company settled on 50 hectares of scrub-covered hillside above Aniane, where pioneering local growers at the Mas de Daumas Gassac and the Domaine de la Grange des Pères had already shown the potential of vines planted in low-yield hillside plots rather than fertile valley bottoms...
...integrated into the community," concedes its representive in France, David Pearson. And Aniane's voters may have let the future slip through their fingers. "Fifty percent of the growers who sell to the coop are going to disappear," says Laurent Vaillé, owner of La Grange des Pères. "Mondavi was their last chance, the only thing that was going to help the coop stay alive. Mondavi would have shone a spotlight on Languedoc throughout the Anglo-Saxon world. There's no one else in the region who could do that." By opting for splendid isolation, Aniane may have...