Word: rings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Apple Circus does it all in a single, 42-ft. ring...
...readings of standards like Debussy's La Mer. Under his baton the orchestra reached a level of technical precision that it had lacked for years under his predecessor, Leonard Bernstein. From 1976 to 1980, Boulez presided over the controversial Patrice Chéreau productions of Wagner's Ring cycle at Bayreuth-an incisive interpretation of the mythological saga, which can now be heard, in digital sound, on Philips Records (16 discs...
...chandeliers. There are no Lawrence of Arabia types to match the well-oiled revelers who made headlines among the sand dunes of Long Island after Fernanda Wetherill's legendary bash in 1963. Absent too is the spectacle of several years ago, when one Dallas daddy hired a three-ring circus, complete with elephants, for his daughter's party. "They're all playing it pretty conservative this year," explains Marge Waters, a close observer of the Dallas social scene...
This is a time of startling directorial innovations in opera. Patrice Chéreau's controversial Bayreuth staging of Wagner's Ring cycle (1976) featured Rhine maidens frolicking near a hydroelectric dam and Siegfried wearing a dinner jacket. But what Brook has done goes beyond accepted notions of radicalism. Essentially, he has recomposed Bizet's masterpiece, discarding whole sequences, changing the order of arias, even putting the overture near the end. The implicit arrogance of all this does not trouble Brook. "Opera is not a musical contract on paper, something between attorneys," he says. "The whole essence...
Whether in the pro ring or on the Harvard mat, wrestlers engage in their own version of physical combat. What ultimately distinguishes the genuine from the absurd is that while Stan "Heart-punch" Staziak bloodies the ring with his ludicrous antics, the Crimson wrestlers use their mat as if it were a canvas, worthy of easel and brush...