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Conceived during the 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann, the 50-minute oratorio based on the Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead, is a highly personal memorial to the Nazis' victims. Scored for bass-baritone, double chorus, orchestra and string quintet, the pace in all but one of the...
Grape Wine portrays Wyeth's friend and handyman Willard Snowden. Since 1964, he has painted the wine-loving Negro drifter often in wistful poses suggestive of eternal human patience. Says Wyeth: "He gave me a chance to paint something timeless, ageless, endless. He's all of the Brandywine...
Until World War I, many universities were little more than liberal arts colleges or professional schools for a wealthy elite; now they cannot find nearly enough teachers, part-time or not, to handle expanding enrollments. At Buenos Aires, enrollment in economics alone has nearly quadrupled in the past ten years...
Among today's grand array of orchestral instruments, the humble recorder - usually a foot-long wooden pipe with seven holes for the fingers and one for the thumb - looks like a pipsqueak. Yet its sweet warblings, wistful twitters and charming coos work such a Pied Piper spell over modern...
The iambic trimeter is charming, in a wistful, childish way-like something from the bottom of a young Emily Dickinson's trunk. In this case, the poetess is Jacqueline Kennedy, whose two quatrains, titled Dream, are published in the June McCall's. She wrote them at 14.