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Huddled in the dark with his sketchbook and his Venus HB pencil at a thousand out-of-town tryouts, Al Hirschfeld has deftly cartooned the casts of Broadway-bound plays for the Sunday New York Times since 1925. And with his distinctive, fine-lined style, Hirschfeld continues to be the foremost practitioner of his trade, a long-lived original with nary a successor in sight. Turning 80 next June, he will be the subject of a number of planned retrospectives, including a major show next spring at Harvard's Fogg Art Museum. Despite all his years on the aisle...
Gulke, conductor of the Dresden State Opera, orchestrated the movement in 1978 after musicologists discovered it in a sketchbook of Schubert's and dated it two weeks before the composer's death...
...with allegorical meaning. Among these was Turner's Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, 1835 (see color page). This apocalyptic moment, for so it seemed to Londoners already made nervous by Chartist labor agitation, happened one October night in 1834, and Turner, rushing from dinner with sketchbook in hand, was there to see it. When the House of Lords collapsed, "Bright coruscations, as of electric fire, played in the great volume of flames," and the throng of watchers on the Thames' embankments broke into applause, "as though they had been present at the closing scene...
...mistake to think of Wood Demon only as a sketchbook for Uncle Vanya. On its own it is an exuberant, if somewhat raveled play. Anyone who has ever watched Vanya or The Three Sisters and wished against all his better aesthetic judgment that one of the attractive, complicated, inhibited egotists would break out and change his lot, will find his fantasies acted out on stage. Though George-played commandingly by Tenniel Evans-shoots himself, Chekhov provides not one but two sets of happy young lovers at the final curtain. In the last act, the young wife, who has briefly left...
...familiar subject by now, and Bakshi's private fantasies may be more startling than original. The film is a grab bag of drawing styles and animation techniques, some used once, then discarded, others used scattershot throughout, giving the whole picture the chaotic consistency of an experimental sketchbook...