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...Fantastique finale; the raw, plaintive solo of the cor anglais in the slow movement, forlornly wailing in response to the ominous, muffled strokes of the timpani; the four harps forming a powerful voice in the whirling waltz. Berlioz -- and such contemporaries as Weber, Schumann, Mendelssohn and even early Wagner -- can, and should, never be heard the same way again...
Besides the Tchaikovsky concerto, tonight's concert will include Wagner's Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde, music with wondrous sonorities and rich modulations, and the "Inextinguishable" symphony of the Danish composer Carl Nielsen (1865-1931), which promises to be the most "modern"--not to say "unromantic"--work of the evening...
...Cabala, the Holocaust, the story of Exodus, Napoleon's occupation of Germany, Albert Speer's architecture, the mythic roots and Nazi uses of German romantic imagery -- dark woods, lonely travelers, ecstatic moral conversions in the face of nature -- and much more besides. Among Kiefer's spiritual heroes are Richard Wagner, Frederick II, Joseph Beuys, Painters Arnold Bocklin and Caspar David Friedrich and Novelist Robert Musil. Kiefer is not an artist of ordinary ambitions. But his ambitions are not bound up in the cult of celebrity that has riddled the art world in the '80s. He shuns publicity, permits virtually...
...friend of mine is one of the Junior 12, and it was a big thing to him because his parents had promised him a Maserati if he made it," said new member J. Peter Wagner '88, "No one's promised me a Maserati, but it's still a nice thing...
...Aaron DiAntonio, Paul T. Donohoe, Alexander E. Dreier, Andrew R. Elby, Jonathan L. Feng, Raymond S. Flournoy, Steven J. Frucht, Handel, Daniel L. Hurewitz, Steven Joffe, Joshua M. Kosowsky, Joshua Lee, Mark H. Levine, William G. Malley, Kevin P. Moriarty, Robert R. Noyer, Andrew J. Powell, Gary D. Rowe, Wagner, Jonathan S. Weissman, and Samuel...