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...technical facility, but his command of a remarkably flexible tonal palette deserved the most attention. The preludes, which became an amalgam of musical reflections under Lang’s touch, proved that while Lang sometimes employs frivolous shows of technique to draw in his audience, the thought and soul within his playing truly captivates listeners. With the crowd already coming to its feet, Lang jumped into Chopin’s “Heroique” Polonaise No. 6 in A-flat Major, his final number. The treacherous double thirds at the beginning were no obstacle to the pianist...
...Straus is not a DJ. No. That would be too simple. Consider him an experience. Of your mind, body, and soul. On the dancefloor is where he will bring you into communion with your forgotten, moving, shaking, self...
...Though this port city is overtly Caribbean, what draws people to it is its colonial Spanish soul, best captured perhaps in the novels of Gabriel García Márquez, its most famous resident. If you had any illusions that García Márquez's cilantro-spun stories were fictional, a few days in Cartagena will change your mind. One baby-faced cabdriver, looking as if he had just stepped off the pages of One Hundred Years of Solitude, speaks of his 18 children and 30 grandchildren, many named some iteration of José. Characters like these...
This is the story of Eric Kraft's novel Flying (Picador; 581 pages). And of course, Peter's "full and frank disclosure" is much more a Proustian exercise in creative recollection than a marshaling of the facts. After all, Peter is an imaginative soul, and he knows it--that's what got him into this mess in the first place. "When you are a seat-of-the-pants memoirist," he writes, "you don't write about your life; you live your memoirs. You begin to feel that you and your account of yourself are one, like a mythical beast...
...believed that his greatest discovery was that all animals were kin, and wondered whether an awareness of the continuity of related species could assuage the pain of death. Humanities Center Director and Professor Homi K. Bhabha called the literary critic a “magnificent archaeologist of the soul of the scientist.” Beer said that in Darwin’s writings he used imaginative language to achieve a “reverse anthropomorphism” that nurtured empathy between humans and other living beings. For example, he once observed a plant recoiling in “disgust?...