Word: supermans
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...concert featured two of the classical music industry's most famous figures, conductor/composer John Williams and flutist James Galway. Maestro Williams is most widely known for his 75 film scores, including Schindler's List, Jurassic Park, the three Indiana Jones films, E.T., Superman, the Star Wars trilogy and, most recently, Rosewood. For these and others, Williams has accrued five Oscars, one British Academy Award and 16 Grammys. He has also composed many concert pieces, including several concertos, most recently a trumpet concerto commissioned by the Cleveland Orchestra. Boston audiences are most familiar with Williams as the conductor of the Boston...
...Diego--Get second baseman Quilvio Veras to lead off. Ken Caminiti is a superman, but have questions with a couple starters and someone to bridge the gap between the starter and set-up man Doug Bochtler...
...flavored brand of classical music is lots of things, but boring isn't one of them. His compositions include Elvis Everywhere, a work for string quartet and three Elvis impersonators on tape; Desi, a woodwind tribute to I Love Lucy; and Metropolis Symphony, a five-movement orchestral salute to Superman. And on March 14, Daugherty's first opera, Jackie O, about guess who, was produced by Houston Grand Opera. Set to a libretto by Wayne Koestenbaum, author of the panegyric 1995 book Jackie Under My Skin, Jackie O is a surreal fantasy in which the former First Lady rubs shoulders...
...THIS WHAT SUPERMAN SEES? Terrorists and smugglers routinely hide weapons and drugs on their person. Now technology (developed by American Science & Engineering) enables security personnel to conduct a body search without ordering the removal of a single stitch of clothing. Are you sure you want airline employees to undress you with their eyes...
...criticism are tempered by his keen intellect and the immigrant's perspective on what he found in this country that was utterly different from what he left in Nazi Europe. As a young man, he is struck by the silliness of American attention to newspaper comic strips. He sees Superman as "something out of Nietzsche and vaguely associated with Nazi theories of a master race." But in the same strip he is able to see the positive side to this American absurdity: "I sensed America's ability to domesticate menace and shrink giants...