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...lively second movement was buoyant with running 16th notes in the strings like a motor beneath the orchestra. The speed occasionally got the better of the strings, as the sound sometimes lost its crispness, but Yannatos again gave the audience a thrilling ride. The slow third movement features striking, solemn chorales in the horns and bassoons and a lush string sound. In the tumultuous final movement, the strings nimbly ducked under and crept over the winds, and the piece finished with a fulfilling culmination of the momentum that had gathered throughout, capping off the performance by Yannatos and his beaming...
...This is a movie that packs more solemn, sodden farewells into the last 10 mins. than The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King did in its final half-hour. (Hey, guys, you're going off to college, not Iraq.) The climactic gravity is meant to threaten the kids that their beloved franchise may be no more. Yet we know that a fourth High School Musical is already in the works? And can Disney's theatrical arm possibly resist sending their golden goose to Broadway? After all, Mary Poppins is playing just down the block from the Empire...
...This is a movie that packs more solemn, sodden farewells into the last 10 mins. than The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King did in its final half-hour. (Hey, guys, you're going off to college, not Iraq.) The climactic gravity is meant to threaten the kids that their beloved franchise may be no more. Yet we know that a fourth High School Musical is already in the works? And can Disney's theatrical arm possibly resist sending their golden goose to Broadway? After all, Mary Poppins is playing just down the block from the Empire...
Message to Wall Street: Don't put away your worried faces just yet. Monday's 11% bounce on the Dow Jones industrial average was followed by a more solemn Tuesday, with the Dow sinking .8% as investors pulled back fearing tough times ahead. There's still a real economy out there - and it's still hurting. Shares in blue-chip companies fell yesterday as layoffs in places like PepsiCo loomed. In the days ahead, Wall Street will receive several reality checks that could take the fizz out of any good cheer brought on by the Dow's biggest...
...Carnegie Corporation of New York and with presenters AARP and Target--a national bipartisan summit in New York City that will bring together hundreds of leading Americans to plan and lay out a bold blueprint on citizen service. The event will start on the evening of Sept. 11--that solemn anniversary seemed an appropriate time to launch this effort--and the meeting itself will occur the next day, Sept. 12. The summit will also be the first major public event for ServiceNation, a national campaign of more than 100 organizations--ranging from AARP to the National Council of La Raza...