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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Vail is sometimes called the "Dallas Alps," a reference to the Texas oilmen who have taken a liking to the place and helped push land values to more than $200,000 an acre. The resort is a world away from Grand Rapids and the square, salt-of-the-earth style that otherwise characterizes the President...
Incredible Soul. Rimsky-Korsakov was one of the master orchestrators of the post-romantic era. He revised Boris at the turn of the century in the conviction that while Mussorgsky's writing had undeniable boldness, originality and even beauty, it was also rough of harmony, incoherent of style and in general not the work of a professional. In truth, Mussorgsky, a civil service clerk, had little formal training but did possess, as Schippers puts it, "an incredible soul, obviously. It had to come out." Rimsky's rich, opulent revision swept the operatic world, with the great Russian basso...
...that argument last week in a way that demonstrated all over again what grand opera is supposed to be and mean. Mussorgsky's orchestral writing turns out to be stark, but not as bleak as one had been led to believe. His melodic style is roughhewn and at times commonplace, but never without a specific point. What the new Met production revealed above all was that, amazingly enough, Mussorgsky knew exactly what he was doing. He also made fierce demands on the orchestral players, often asking, say, the horns to play in unusually high, tricky registers. These requirements...
...Italian, as used to happen at the Met. More important, the singers seem to like singing it in Russian. Why? Because Mussorgsky's vocal writing bobs and weaves, rises and falls to the natural conversational flow of the Russian words. Boris' realistic-in a sense unoperatic-style of recitative is perhaps Mussorgsky's greatest innovation and contribution to future operatic composers. Says Conductor Schippers: "Boris influenced so many composers-Puccini, Stravinsky, Janacek, even Gian Carlo Menotti. Without it we might not have had a Pelleas et Melisande. That's how important I think Boris is." -William...
...leftist lecturer in social science at Harvard with a rich wife (Singer sewing machines) and an activist's belief in redistributing wealth. At the time of the purchase, press observers expected early trouble for the former owner and still editor, Gilbert Harrison, 59, a high-minded, unabrasive, older-style liberal and leader in the antiwar and "Dump L.B.J." movements...