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Cowbells, resuming the creche-like tunes of the earlier movements, tantalize the hero in the finale. The mood, once inspired, intense, becomes introverted and tenacious. Mahler returns to C minor after the third movement's maundering for a thread of unity. In fact, this is the only symphony of Mahler's eleven in which he uses the classical return to tonic...
...necessarily to knock it, for when it is good, Lulu is as good as anything the Rep has yet put on. The staging is continuously engaging and visually interesting, the technical effects are never gratuitous, and always surprising; throughout, there's a contagious joy in theatre, a constant thread of spieltrieb, of play and wit and imagination. For example, there's the spontaneous appearance in the first half of a rock band, led by the preternaturally cool Steve Drury, on a podium that rises out of the stage. They are having fun, and the fun draws us in, which...
...entered a water tank, where they performed flight operations in an orbiter model. But perhaps the most important drills have involved the crucial moments of takeoff and landing. Unless the blast-off is precise, says Young, "you can almost leave the wings sitting on the ground. You have to thread that needle very carefully." The risk in landing is that Columbia will swoop down with no power; there would thus be no way of correcting a mistake...
Crippen likes to quote Young's remark, "If you're not nervous, you don't understand what's happening." But both men are looking forward eagerly to the moment when they will "thread the needle" with Columbia as they blast off from Cape Canaveral and then come plummeting down for their one and only pass at the runway 54 hours later. Says Young: "Unbelievable...
Looking back now as we prepare another step into space, the wonder is that there were ever doubts about this adventure. Our recovery and triumph in space run like a golden thread through the dark political years, often the only moments of success, a unifying voice of pride in a discordant era. God, but we were, and are, good...