Word: sagaing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...picket fence sits amid a clump of fir trees on a hill overlooking the writers' colony of Peredelkino, 15 miles southwest of Moscow. There, in the sparsely furnished second-floor study, Boris Pasternak wrote some of the greatest Russian poetry of the century and Doctor Zhivago, the epic saga of Russian life, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958. On a nearby hillock, surrounded by three pine trees, is the grave where Pasternak was buried after his death from cancer in 1960. Since then, the house and the grave-site have become a shrine...
When Handel composed Orlando in 1732, based on the Ariosto saga, his cast of characters consisted of the hero of the title, the Queen of Cathay, an African prince, a shepherdess, and a magician. The setting was simply a nameless forest. "Handel's audience didn't need to be told who Orlando was, as audiences today don't need to be told about Captain Kirk or Mr. Spock," Sellars writes in the production's program notes. "As soon as the characters appeared, the audience had a set of collective expectations, and was ready for action. Thus, I think the logical...
Nine years later he was offered a post he could not refuse: the directorship of BBC-2, Britain's new high-brow channel. His stewardship produced such series as The Forsyte Saga, Civilisation, The Ascent of Man and America. Attenborough, the brother of Actor-Director Richard Attenborough, did not thrive on administrative duties, however, and in 1977 he began the three years of work that would produce his own series. Life on Earth was first shown on the BBC in 1979 and has since gone through two reruns, receiving universal praise from British critics. The reason for so much...
Following the lead of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd, Bennett opts to develop the story line almost entirely in song, including operatic recitatives. The tale is rather like the saga of the Supremes' rise from Harlem's Apollo Theater to top-of-the-pop-charts renown, to gether with the emergence of Diana Ross...
...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...