Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although it is not easy for performers to capture Mahler's spirit in any of his compositions, his final pieces are especially challenging. Mahler's repertoire requires spiritual empathy as well as technical delicacy. A conductor must look at life and try to see what Mahler saw--a combination of fear, ennui and child-like wonder. Unsurprisingly, an exquisite performance of Mahler is moving--but rare. And so, when conductor Seiji Ozawa and the Boston Symphony Orchestra (B.S.O.) performed one of Mahler's final (and arguably, most perfect) pieces, the vocal accompanied Das Lied von der Erde (The Song...
...deem every Monday, Wednesday and Friday Halloween, Jr. and gorge yourself with candy to fully capture the spirit of the holiday...
Result: thousands of sites springing up like mushrooms in one of those sudden bursts of self-expression for which the Internet is famous. There's Anime Carnival and Mack's Mouse Hole, White Wolf's World of Darkness and Spirit's Haunted Palace. There are foreign-language palaces like Mexchat, Chatteria ("the Swiss Palace server") and intranet-quebec.com kids' palaces whose authentication software bars inappropriate visitors; adult palaces like SinCity and Nite Winds that...well, if you care enough to ask, you'd probably prefer to find out about those for yourself...
...knock is on us, the nation that John Kennedy once galvanized with the challenge "of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to earth," impossibly, within 8 1/2 years. Once, we had the spirit to go. And we did. Then we came back. And ever since...
Maybe the critics are right. Maybe what animated us back then was less the spirit of exploration than the spur of nationalism. Maybe it was all about beating the Russians. How else to explain how we've been content to go around in circles--literally, around and around in low-earth orbit--for the past quarter-century...