Word: wagnerism
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...myth of Shostakovich being cowed into abject submission by Stalin," says Matsov. "Shostakovich, my father and Yudina waged their own campaign of cultural resistance - and won." Beyond Shostakovich's daring work, this trio also organized public performances of over 400 mostly religious pieces, including works by Bach, Wagner, Haydn and Mahler that were banned in the U.S.S.R. The archive is an extraordinary resource on cultural life in the old Soviet Union. Now it is in danger. In 1993 the house was restored to its lawful owners in the wake of the de-Sovietization of Estonia. Matsov, a Muscovite, cannot afford...
...match of developer and designer is apt. Jahn's work tends to be glossy, imposing and a little martial, the architectural equivalent of Wagner played on a synthesizer at full blast. He is the Donald Trump of his field, a showman enthralled by sheer size. "We are doing the tallest building in Houston," says Jahn, "the tallest building in Philadelphia, the tallest building in Europe." He arrived from West Germany 19 years ago, at age 26; at 33 he was partner and design director of C.F. Murphy Associates in Chicago; at 43 he was owner and chief executive officer...
...brio in a 1902 Magic Flute; and the soaring American soprano Nordica (née Norton), who must have been one of the most glorious Brünnhildes in history. And here, in his only extant recording, is the Polish tenor De Reszke; the legendary voice is frustratingly obscured, but his Wagner and Meyerbeer heroes glow with virile grace...
...Crimson headed into the ECAC Championships—the tune-up for Northerns and Easterns—looking to improve upon a last-place finish in 2004. Third-seeded Harvard survived a scare from a lowly Wagner squad in the first round before falling to second-seeded and eventual champion Princeton 7-3 in the semifinal round...
...will honor the pleas of the film's press agents and not reveal who's who and what happens. Suffice to say that this adaptation of the graphic novel by John Wagner has four outbreaks of jolting violence to give some kick to a penetrating character study; and that the real Joey Cusack has a savory showdown with his mob-boss brother Richie (played by William Hurt with a rich pleasure in menace). Mortensen, whose Tom is as stalwart as his Middle-Earth Aragorn, is completely convincing and utterly hunky -a man worth loving, no matter...