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...next song, a slight ballad by Friedrich Rueckert (the same one who made Mahler's masterpiece possible), was the evening's first jewel. As an astute listener remarked, "Dass sie hier gewesen" (That she was here) was ravishing because Goode wove in Upshaw's calm melody among a gently insistent stream of suspended fourths. The last of the five, "Der Musensohn" (The Muses' Son, a poem by Goethe), was a vehicle more for Goode's talent than Upshaw's--his capricious part intimated one of his upcoming Brahms solos. Unfortunately, the lace of technical difficulty left him free...
...very idea of disciplines which are bound to knowing how to do something, certain skills. Obviously, in French literature you would to be able to read French very well, not just modern French but Medieval French. In art history there are also skills, like connoiseurship, and at least some slight knowledge of conservation...
Mike McHale. Mike is co-owner of Tommy's House of Pizza, and is easily recognized with his freshly-shaven head and wire rimmed glasses. Although raised in New York, he speaks with an ever-so-slight twinge of metro Beantown. He knows his regular customers by name, and inquires of their lives. Once a college student himself, he has built his establishment around the temporal and financial, if not nutritional demands of his clientele. Caring about the needs of consumers is a novel though in both Harvard Square and Harvard University alike, and Mike Mchale is an asset...
There is a slight similarity in the mentoring relationship between the swan and the Prince to that of Bourne and Cooper. Cooper, 25, the Royals' most adventurous, vibrant dancer, began by working with Bourne occasionally. Swan Lake changed all that. Cooper became the toast of London when the show ran there nightly for 21 weeks last fall. He left the Royals and committed himself to Bourne's company, Adventures in Motion Pictures...
...subject so huge requires a site that can accommodate its hugeness. Yet any memorial true to the war would crush the site. And any memorial true to the site would slight...