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...that's the case, the long-awaited appointment of permanent leadership could usher in a period of reform at the GSAS, which many professors say has suffered from neglect in recent years...
Debussy: The Fall of the House of Usher; Andre Caplet: Conte Fantastique (for harp and strings); Florent Schmitt: Etude pour "Le Palais Hante." (Georges Pretre conducting the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra; Angel.) Thanks to the translations of Baudelaire and Mallarme, the works of Edgar Allan Poe became popular in France during the late 19th century. Inevitably, they cast their spell on the imaginations of the country's leading composers; Debussy, for example, long considered writing a pair of one-act operas based on Poe's fantasies. He made a start on The Fall of the House of Usher, preparing...
...Allende-Blin reconstructed and orchestrated about 400 bars of the opera. Debussy's brooding music is spheres apart from the pastoral beauties of Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun or the nautical tone painting of La Mer. Indeed, in its consummate wedding of text to music, the work Usher most closely resembles is Debussy's only completed opera, the shadowy symbolist drama Pelleas et Melisande. The tormented Roderick Usher, Poe's unhappy protagonist, is depicted in agonized music that is drenched by the misery in the man's soul. Debussy intended Usher to last about an hour; Allende-Blin...
...that Usher and his returning players are enjoying the fruits of their toils a supply that should last for many years to come, Usher remembers the players who were with him from the beginning...
...know if there's another three-time captain [like Kaulman] in Harvard sports," Usher said, adding of his seniors. "A tremendous amount of credit for the success of these four years has to go to Debbie [Kaufman] and Elizabeth [Evans...