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Whether playing a finger-twisting show-stopper like Leopold Godowsky's Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes from Johann Strauss II's "Artist's Life," or kiddin' on the keys with Gershwin's Fascinating Rhythm, or digging into one of the late Beethoven sonatas, Wild brings the same impeccable attention to structure and detail. "I spend a lot of time with these pieces," he says, "because if you don't know them thoroughly, you're just struggling like crazy to play the notes. But when you hear middle voices and the other details--when you have the tones in your head...
DIED. WALTER HAAS, 79, heir of jeans maker Levi Strauss, beloved by Oaklanders for acquiring the A's in 1980 to keep the baseball team on home turf; in San Francisco...
...then, movie music is firmly in the romantic tradition. In accepting the 1954 Academy Award for his score for The High and the Mighty, Dimitri Tiomkin thanked "all those who helped me win this award--Johannes Brahms, Richard Strauss, Beethoven and Tchaikovsky." What sets the new composers apart, though, is their ability to combine disparate influences in the same score, drawing equally on rock, jazz, classical and folk influences. In Braveheart, for example, Horner melds the lonely sound of the Irish uillean pipes and the Peruvian flute with a modern symphony orchestra to portray Mel Gibson's doomed hero...
...mordant one-man show derived from three novels by Samuel Beckett) to the mediocre (Hans Werner Henze's tired exercise in late-'50s avant-gardism, Der Prinz von Homburg) to the risible (the washed-up soprano Renata Scotto singing the role of the Marschallin in Richard Strauss's opera Der Rosenkavalier). Still, Spoleto seems on course to become one of the nation's most important and enjoyable arts events...
This man, Leo Strauss, spoke at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, where he gave a speech entitled "Between Athens and Jerusalem." His speech addressed the tension between navigating the course of one's life either by the lodestar of Jerusalem or the lodestar of Athens. Like the earlier giants on whose shoulders he stood, Strauss searched for the answer to whether one should live one's life by the dictates of faith or the demands of human reason. He unceasingly examined all the efforts on narrowing the gulf between God and Mind, seeing if he could better articulate and possibly...