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Hagebölling next presented “Roll Over Beethoven,” an array of installations made for the Bonn International Beethoven Festival in 2006. The piece, Hagebölling said, “aimed to meaningfully translate classical music” through use of audiovisual media...
...Roll Over Beethoven” also featured Kualshen Auson’s whimsical installation, “Scratching Beethoven.” Auson’s project harnessed the movement of ant colonies through a network of glass boxes to mechanically rotate a turntable playing Beethoven’s opera “Fidelio.” “The dissonant sound horrified Beethoven-lovers,” Hagebölling laughed, “but it amused the children...
Were you surprised at how you came to be part of the evangelical world? It's very easy to roll your eyes at the whole culture if you don't have any stake in anyone participating in it. Once I developed friendships with people whom I cared about, it was easier for me to see the appeal. It's no accident that evangelical Christianity is as popular as it is. I even came to enjoy listening to sermons from Jerry Falwell, whose politics I was [initially] allergic to. The emotional, intoxicating experience of being at church and hearing that music...
...album is based on how various characters in a community navigate the world of haves and have-nots. What’s most important to me is that I’m honest about the experiences of ordinary people.” For example, the song “Roll The Dice,” according to Khuri, is about the naiveté with which middle- and upper-class people often approach working with the poor. The song narrates from the perspective of one such well-intentioned character, the lyrics revealing his cursory assumptions about a life of which...
...many people have reached that breaking point with their Federal Government-and are they acting alone or together? If you count just the people who are arming themselves against the day when U.N. tanks roll through the heartland to establish the one-world order, estimates range only as high as 100,000. But if you include all the people in as many as 40 states who respond to the patriot rhetoric about a sinister, out-of-control federal bureaucracy -- all the ranchers fed up with land- and water-use policies, all the loggers who feel besieged by environmentalists...