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WHEN PABLO CASALS began his public career in 1889, the romantic age was still unfolding. Brahms had only recently finished his fourth and final symphony, and people heatedly debated the merits of Brahms versus Wagner. Music, at the time, was still a remarkably elite art, and though giant city orchestras existed in many places, the greatest instrumental performers still had to win royal support. These musicians had no role in the problems of the world and many writers--the aesthetes--had begun their own retreat into the purely aesthetic sentiments they thought they saw in music. A cartoon...
Walking home from a Mass Ave pizza shop one night, Hart meets Kingsfield's daughter Susan (Lindsay Wagner), who says she is being followed and asks him to escort her to the next block. Romance, of course, ensues, providing some of the film's dumber moments (such as a romp through snowy Harvard Stadium a la Love Story...
...coach at this time. While Tim Manna has one side sewed up, the other starting spot and the swing position are still unfilled. "I don't see anyone out of the pack who can stabilize our situation," Restic said. Restic has been working Danny Jiggetts, Dave Burlage, and Bob Wagner the most in his quest to find a solution to his tackle problem...
...past decade he has staged one-acters by Puccini, Ravel and Schonberg at Covent Garden, and in 1968 he directed a successful new version of Mozart's The Magic Flute at the Hamburg State Opera. Until that possible day when he sings and acts all the parts in Wagner's Ring cycle, Ustinov's most ambitious operatic venture will be the Don Giovanni he conceived, designed and directed for the opening of the 27th Edinburgh International Festival last week...
...fessed at his trial to slaugh tering hundreds of boys in the 15th century "solely for the pleasure and delectation of lust." Henri Landru, the French Bluebeard, specialized in ravishing and killing lonely women until the guillotine ended his career in 1922. A German schoolteacher named Wagner, who was obsessed with an act of sodomy that he said he committed when he was 27, killed his family of five, nine other people and a number of cows in 1913. Fritz Haarmann, the "ogre of Hannover," combined homosexuality with the killing of at least 24 victims shortly after World...