Word: surer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...versions, trimming the recitatives, shortening some arias, shuffling others and even adding a duet from Handel's Ad-meto. It may be argued that Katz is only following a convention to which Handel subscribed. Yet Katz is not Handel; the composer's instincts offer surer musical logic and dramatic shape...
Both Gehry and Adams have a surer sense of drama. The architect's installation, in a converted downtown warehouse, is strongly articulated by his fondness for raw wood surfaces and chain-link fencing. The precariousness of the dancers' position-the lower and larger of the two stages reaches second-story height-emphasizes the fragility and remoteness of Childs' work. The audience is perched even higher, on bleachers, and peers down at the action onstage...
Caro returns to surer ground, though, in the scholarly detective work that uncovered the relationship between Johnson and his main political bankroller, the Texas construction company Brown & Root, Inc. Through obscure, recently released Federal documents, correspondence among Federal officials and Brown & Root representatives, and extensive conversations with company founding partner George Brown. Caro details for the first time the way Johnson's first Congressional campaign, in a 1937 special election, benefitted from the company's desire to receive a $10-million Federal contract to build a dam in the district the future President sought to represent. The author traces painstakingly...
...suffering from a chronic back ailment, Karajan looks far frailer than he did on his previous U.S. appearance: a small, fragile man with a shock of swept-back white hair who pulls himself up to the podium with difficulty. But his command of the orchestra has never been surer, nor his conducting so infused with the wisdom that comes with age. After a century of excellence, the Berlin Philharmonic shows no signs of advancing years, only greater maturity. -By Michael Walsh
Gershwin was never entirely comfortable in the high-toned world of "serious" art. But Robbins is; his sense of structure-of how to hold a multimovement piece together-is stronger and surer. Against an art deco backdrop with a huge "G," Robbins enshrines the soul of Gershwin's piano in four crisply moving soloists, led by the technically dazzling, ebullient Darci Kistler. He impersonates the orchestra with a corps of 24 dancers-a dozen of each sex-and follows the episodes of the music as if he were charting a graph. Yet, where Gershwin's music ultimately degenerates...