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...HAMPSHIRE: Schubert 0-2 0-0 0; Danker 10-17 9-12 30; Karl 2-8 0-0 4; Brandell 6-10 7-9 19; Colton 5-10 1-2 11; Caldwell 6-10 3-6 15; Kimball 0-0 0-0 0; White 0-0 0-0 0. TOTALS...
...ever there was a monument to the Western Canon, Paine Hall is it. High above the audience, in proud brass letters, the names of the Great Composers--Beethoven, Schubert, Bach--remind us that we are in a temple of culture, to be enlightened by the best music from the best minds in history. The literal presence of these great names only emphasized the question posed by last Sunday's concert: is that tradition still alive, and does John Harbison belong...
Most of the works for solo piano are brief (between one and two minutes), and were composed in 1862, when Nietzsche was only 17. His lack of formal training shows, but the pieces require no apology and display a true melodic gift, reminiscent of Schubert and Schumann. Paradoxically, this heroic visionary was most at home in such small-scale works; his more ambitious pieces for two pianos (written in 1871 and '73) owe much in vocabulary and gesture to Liszt and Wagner. But the seams show, and the intended grandeur is painfully strained. On the other hand, a charming violin...
...stirring soundtrack includes original compositions by Mychael Danna, a piano piece by Schubert and Leonard Cohen's impossibly catchy "Everybody Knows." Danna's music, which uses Indian instruments and draws on classical, popular Indian influences, contributes to the director's exploration of exoticism and desire. Cohen's song reflects on the characters' situation: everybody knows something is going on, yet no one can see the whole picture or address the situation...
...Biffi, 66, the Archbishop of Bologna. Biffi, for whom John Paul reportedly has a soft spot, likes to bait Italy's liberal press with his diatribes against gays, feminists, AIDS victims, unwed mothers and pro-choice activists. He has led a campaign to abolish the music of Mozart and Schubert from the Mass, and he once likened ordaining women as priests to celebrating Communion with Coca- Cola. Says he: "Defending the truth as it has been revealed by God is the most elementary and necessary act of charity toward others...