Word: violas
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Friends last week said Jo was helpful, friendly and "brilliant all-around." While at Harvard, Jo a native of California, did research on the cellular mechanisms of the immune system and played the viola in the Mozart Symphony Orchestra and the recent Dunster House opera...
...York Times article, Harvard literature professor Stephen Greenblatt explains that Shakespeare's popular sonnet, "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?" was actually addressed to a young man instead of the "fair-haired, wealthy young woman Viola de Lesseps" as "Shakespeare in Love" would lead one to believe. But for the sake of the movie's success--and the movie's success did depend on this fundamental alteration--the screenwriters did a bit of tinkering...
...Screenwriters with that Academy Award glean in their eye must create films to which the majority of American audiences can relate. And more Americans can relate to Shakespeare's pursuit of Viola de Lesseps rather than perhaps the pursuit of Christopher Marlow, Shakespeare's authentic friend and literary rival. Norman and Stoppard wrote the movie with the intention that audience members would either trudge out of the theater longing for some Romeo to climb through their bedroom window at night, or with patrons holding on a bit tighter to the Romeo they had already won over. Had the plot focused...
...Castelli, a double-threat who won an international viola competition in 1997, nervousness is probably not an issue. Castelli has been praised in the Washington Post for her virtuosity and for "cantabile resonance," something the Sibelius calls for in spades...
...sold out to them, and to their way of life, thus sending his art into decadence, was widespread once. It isn't borne out by the pictures themselves. A strangely moody image from 1677, of a couple eating oysters in a shadowed courtyard while a black servant plays the viola, is one of the best of all his paintings. But the earlier, inward, reflective De Hoochs seem closer to his own life, and so they affect us more...