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...more half naked women up in the pool.” It’s clear that Fiasco could become one of hip-hop’s premier lyricists. He has tremendous range, scribing the light-hearted skateboard romance “Kick, Push” and Sturm und Drang issue songs like “He Say She Say” and “Hurt Me Soul.” “The Cool” tells the mesmerizing story of a murdered gangster who dies again following his resurrection. “The Cool?...
...Violin Concerto.”Led by HRO conductor Dr. James Yannatos, Harvard’s orchestra proved a fine match for Jackiw, executing a moving performance of the “Prelude and Liebestod” from Richard Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde” and of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s “Symphony No. 4” in addition to the Brahms concerto. In many ways, it was the orchestra rather than Jackiw that stole the show, with their tactful, elaborate construction of the three pieces. HRO President Chrix...
...Clancy had gone as ballistic as a Red October submarine-launched missile because the director who was turning one of Clancy's novels into a movie placed a reef in the middle of the (reefless) Chesapeake Bay for plot reasons. Thinking back on the account of this Sturm und Drang in a teacup, I thought, Dude, count your blessings. The movie version of one of my novels had just run aground again, not in the Chesapeake but somewhere in the middle of that reef and wreck-strewn seascape known as Hollywood...
...Swedish Wagnerian soprano strode on the Met's stage, and [was compared] to the 'incomparable' [Kirsten] Flagstad herself. The debutante: 41-year-old Birgit Nilsson, whose appearance in a new production of Tristan und Isolde touched off the kind of debut furor the Met's Wagnerians have not witnessed in a quarter-century ... A solid (5 ft. 8 in., 150 lbs.) and imposing woman, dramatic soprano Nilsson ... displayed a big, flashing, vibrant voice that galvanized her audience and conveyed an immediate sense of the turbulent passions that animate the role [of Isolde] ... Apparently a more severe critic of herself than...
...generation; on Christmas Day, in Vastra Karup, Sweden. Level-headed and sharp-witted, Nilsson thrilled audiences from New York to Milan in a variety of operas, but won her most enthusiastic fans with dynamic lead performances in such Wagner works as Ring of the Nibelung and Tristan und Isolde. Asked to name the primary requirement for playing Isolde, a punishing role she performed some 200 times, she said: "Comfortable shoes...