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...learn that her performance had deeply affected her colleague-so much so that Lenya gave her a stack of Weill songs that she had been keeping in a safe for years, waiting for the right interpreter to come along. Those songs became the basis of a treasurable record, The Unknown Kurt Weill, which has been nominated this year for two Grammy awards. Says Stratas: "Somewhere we were both aware she was handing over a torch, her reason for living...
...watch your favorite superstar punish the opposition, but nothing in sports matches the thrill of seeing an unknown talent enter the fray and lead his team to victory...
...surprisingly, John Reed's degree--awarded on schedule in 1910--was non-honors. Only instruction from one teacher of creative writing seriously competed with his extra-curricular pursuits during his entire four years at college. An impromptu discussion and dinner conversation by an unknown professor--who turned out to be William James--afforded him ample party talk...
Thank God, as they say, for small favors. More precisely for the Harvard men's basketball team, thank Him for the small, relatively unknown colleges that pad the Crimson's basketball schedule...
Weill: The Unknown Kurt Weill (Nonesuch) Treasures from the The Threepenny Opera composer, sung by Teresa Stratas...