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Michael Grenzy sent in a point shot that Grumet-Morris saved routinely but made the mistake of turning aside to his right. There, Tristan Lush warded off Crimson defender Dylan Reese, pounced on the loose puck and whipped it in for a 2-0 lead...
...Harpsichord; Mario Davidovsky’s Synchronisms No. 6 for piano and tape; and Giancento Scelsi’s Anahit. Saturday’s program includes George Crumb’s Vox Balaenae; George Ligeti’s Cello Concerto; Bernard Rands’ Concertino for oboe; and Tristan Murail’s Ethers. A discussion with composers Mario Davidovsky and Bernard Rands to follow on both days. Admission free. 8 p.m. Paine Hall...
After sweeping the two breastroke events, Grant battled in a one-on-one dual with UNC’s Tristan Davidson in the 200-yard individual medley. Although Grant was touched out at the finish, his swim was perhaps the most exciting of the day as each swimmer enlivened both squads and the crowd...
...whiff of the lecture hall is detectable all through this book. (Some passages have more dates than an almanac.) But the juxtaposition of Tristan's and Gauguin's stories is fascinating all the same. In their different ways, both were moralists and proselytizers. Gauguin saw his paintings as pamphlets. His sensual Tahitians and Maori gods, his untamed yellows and greens were ripostes to the attenuated spiritual powers of Europe. His grandmother, meanwhile, was eventually compelled to admit the importance of sex for human happiness, despite her attachment to higher goals. And both were constantly embroiled in fights with the police...
...chapters devoted to Tristan, who died four years before her grandson was born, Vargas Llosa reimagines 1844, the year of her death from typhoid at the age of 41. Tristan spends most of it traveling around southern France, pleading her vision of a cooperative future to small, mostly uncomprehending audiences. Years earlier she had fled her abusive husband, taking their small daughter Aline, Gauguin's mother. Tristan thinks back on the odyssey that then took her as far as Peru, where she went in hope of securing an inheritance from her late Peruvian father. The money was denied...