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...Latino presence in the American judiciary - Sotomayor now famously said, "I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life." In May, after the blog Verum Serum and then the New York Times posted the text of the speech online, a vaudevillian assortment of right-wing politicians and commentators have taken this remark as evidence that Sotomayor is a racist who will pursue an unknown agenda once ensconced in that great neoclassical retirement home known...
Four slightly older girls perform in Mozartiana. They are dressed in black, and at the opening of the ballet they frame Farrell in a mysterious image. The music is Tchaikovsky's setting of a Mozart motet known as the Ave Verum Corpus. The backdrop is the one used throughout the festival, a vaulting of 3,600 translucent tubes, designed by Philip Johnson. (It took 50 men 75 hours to install the 200,000-lb. set.) In Mozartiana, as elsewhere, the play of light on the clear columns gives a spacious harmony to the scene. The tableau is more enigmatic...
...festival. I have been talking to Mr. Tchaikovsky, saying, 'Please let me be well enough to dance.' In Mozartiana Mr. B. wanted us to move in a different way. I have never seen these steps before, and the way they are put together is new. The Ave Verum is a piece I used to sing in church when I was a little girl. As I'm dancing, I silently sing the Latin text. I love the set. The design makes it feel huge. Light changes it-like prisms. The set, along with the music, makes you move...
...gymnasium, Katims led a 16-member string ensemble before an enthusiastic crowd of adults and children that overflowed from bleachers and folding chairs onto the floor. There was an overflow of the overflow when a chorus of 94 children came out to join Katims in Mozart's Ave Verum Corpus...
Forbes drew out a perfectly blended tone in Byrd's Ave Verum that seemed to glow from one warm, focal center. As the separate vocal lines developed, he maintained them with clarity and definition. But dynamics were problematic and in loud passages the tone became flat and a little harsh...