Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...could not have been more perfect. A small platform placed in a back corner of the courtyard served as the stage around which folding chairs were intimately grouped. The lights in and around the three-story courtyard were turned off, a few small spotlights illuminating the stage and the stone walls behind, casting eerie shadows into the archways framing the scene. The simple, classic European backdrop was the ideal setting for the 17th- and 18th-century music that was played. Though I had been looking forward to real candlelight, I came to accept the fact that since we were...
Violins without strings are held in a playingposition by stone statues (Interlude,1998). In other instances, men hold bows as thesit away from a "haystack" of violins and play forthe Exercise of Memory (1998). OlivierMessian's "The Quartet for the End of Time,"inspired The Final Movement (1998) as itwas composed in the concentration camp. Fourmusicians sit adjacent to the ever-presentchimney. They are a reminder of the Jewishmusicians who were forced to play while newprisoners traveled to Auschwitz to perform forcedlabor or face immediate death. These men becomeswallowed by the tranquil landscape, readingnoteless sheet music, playing a soundless song...
...human body turning into stone, wood or acutout, as well as broken fences, severed treesand faulty instruments all symbolize destruction.Yet Bak counters each with the representation ofresurrection and reconstruction through plantedroots: wise elders, stars, doves and triumphantpawns. He speaks to us about what the heart canwithstand, learn and still survive, "I speak aboutdestruction and reconstruction--the amazing humanspirit...
...haven't played a game in about two weeks, so it will be good to get on the ice against Colby," Harvard Coach Katey Stone said. "If we played UNH first and then Colby I'd have more concern just because I'd like to be in a game situation again before we hit the ice against the Wildcats...
...need to have a big game from Crystal Springer and then we need to work our way up from there," Stone said. "We need to make sure we control our own end first and then dominate in the neutral zone because the offense will take care of itself...