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...Probably the New York City Opera owes its loyal fans the right to see Beverly Sills in her latest Donizetti revival, Anna Bolena (not given a major stage production in New York since 1850). But would those fans really desert if deprived of yet another new production of Richard Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos? Not likely...
...myth, as humankind toddled−with some sadness and a certain lyric mysticism−out of its earthbound nursery toward a higher being. Clarke's best-known work is his collaboration with Director Stanley Kubrick on the film 2001, which viewers left not only humming bits of Richard Strauss but full of wry speculations. Did HAL, the onboard computer, rebel because of homosexual jealousy, or was he some kind of reverse Luddite who feared that the mission back to first causes would leave him metaphysically unemployed...
...Cantabrigia Orchestra will give their annual Concert Thursday at 8:30 p.m. at Sanders Theater. Works by Strauss, Mendelssohn, Stravinsky, and Ives. Free and open to the public...
...higher level of speculation political philosopher Leo Strauss has laid the groundwork for this re-examination of current fashionable dogmas by re-examining, in the most meticulous and scholarly fashion, the entire tradition of modern philosophy that started with Bacon and Hobbes. Strauss's work has encouraged the reconsideration of the prevailing positivist philosophy which locates the noetic center of gravity in the natural sciences and mathematics and which is therefore "value free," independent of ethics. Such a political science, says Strauss, by refusing to make value judgments and distinguish between "great statesmen, mediocrities, and insane impostors" may be good...
...want any more than what Ah have." Which is just as well. After five hours of rough hold 'em, Slim was busted by Jack "Tree Tops" Strauss, another tall Texan, in a $9,000 pot. At week's end, Strauss and five other survivors were battling for Slim's title-and the total bank...