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...massive earthquakes and the Dec. 26 tsunami weren't enough, Indonesia has a new geological concern: a string of volcanoes threatening to erupt. Tens of thousands of residents living near Mount Talang on the island of Sumatra fled their homes after the mountain began spewing hot ash last Tuesday. Two days later, Mount Tangkuban Parahu, a 2,084-m peak only 16 km from Bandung, the country's third-largest city, grumbled to life, bringing to 11 the number of Indonesian volcanoes now being monitored for possible eruption...
...music needs no special pleading. In a work like the Double Quartet for Strings (1984), heard as part of the San Francisco Symphony's week-long salute to the composer, Zwilich displays a formidable technical command coupled with a striking ear for beguiling string sonorities. Her 1979 Chamber Symphony, a kind of elegy to her late husband, Metropolitan Opera Violinist Joseph Zwilich, is reminiscent of Shostakovich in its arching melodies and air of melancholic brooding...
McDonagh has put grisly deeds onstage before, in plays like The Beauty Queen of Leenane. But with The Pillowman, he almost seems to have invented a new genre of horror theater. In this macabre fable with echoes of Kafka and Pinter, a man (Billy Crudup) is interrogated for a string of child murders that mimic the gruesome short stories he has written. Somehow, in the transfer to Broadway from London's National Theatre, a lot of unwelcome laughs have been allowed to sneak in. They're only a distraction from a dark, intense and truly shocking meditation on cruelty...
...firm's internal troubles burst into the open, management pushed Perella to take its side. The vice chairman chose instead to take a hike, becoming the biggest name in a string of high-profile departures that have stunned Wall Street, leaving investors and clients to wonder whether more Morgan bankers will head for the hills...
...faculty haven’t been able to get enough of one musically talented family whose repeated campus performances continue to move audience members to tears, if not to the melody. I am, of course, talking about the Ying Quartet, the world’s only professional family string quartet and Blodgett Artists in Residence since 2001. (Those of you who guessed the von Trapp family might just want to read...