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Cole was the first boy wonder of American painting to prove himself entirely on native ground. Earlier prodigies, like Benjamin West, had had to do it in Europe, and it mattered greatly to John Singleton Copley's clients in Boston that Sir Joshua Reynolds praised Copley's early work. But neither Europe nor England paid attention to Cole. From across the Atlantic he would have seemed a mere provincial, fluctuating between derivative Claudian pastorals and apocalyptic religious allegory in the manner of John ("Pandemonium") Martin...
...surely the most unusual aspect of this musical Shangri-La is the fact that it is set on private property. It was built in 1934 at the will of Sir John Christie, the scion of a rich, ancient family, who saw it as a showcase for the talents of his new wife, lyric soprano Audrey Mildmay. The current proprietor, John's son George, makes his home right next to what could be called the family store...
...wonder is that Sir John's original dollhouse theater survived so robustly. He was mostly his own architect. Sir George, 59, played it safer for the new building, hiring Michael and Patty Hopkins, who are also designing a major extension of the House of Commons. Sir George's demands were all but impossible to meet: make a bigger theater that loses little of the old one's intimacy, and be sure that the acoustics are rich and reverberant, like a concert hall's, but dry enough to allow every word to be distinct. Opera houses tend to have a thin...
...stars at Glyndebourne are the conductors -- Bernard Haitink led Figaro -- and the directors. Sir Peter Hall has done some of his best stagings here, as have Trevor Nunn and Jonathan Miller. But the key to Glyndebourne's success is the dozen or so coaches who prepare each opera meticulously. Beneficiaries liken their teaching to having a superb master class every day. Christie notes that "coaches have an awkward job mediating between the conductor and the singer. They need a feeling for what's best for the composer." Their ranks tend to be drawn from people on their way to becoming...
...Sir Cumference pre-vailed--but onlyafter Queen Radcliffe broke a lengthy silence inorder to tell the king to "take back the knight...