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COMPOSER: ERICH WOLFGANG KORNGOLD...
...business. "Searle has never willingly made ((Cytotec)) available for use in abortion," a company official wrote in a letter to the Wall Street Journal in February. "It is not Searle's intention or desire to become embroiled in the abortion issue." Searle's reservations echo that of Hoechst president Wolfgang Hilger, who has been open about his ethical objections...
...named Beethoven, Tchaikovsky and Brahms. On her latest Deutsche Grammophon album, though, she harnesses two modern violin concertos and tames them both. In Alban Berg's ineffable 1935 two-movement concerto, a requiem for the daughter of Alma Mahler Gropius, Mutter evokes the music's intense, passionate suffering. In Wolfgang Rihm's gorgeous Time Chant, written for her last year, Mutter's splendid fiddle soars ethereally over the Chicago Symphony led by James Levine. Can it be that, as the millennium dawns, 20th century music is not so tough after...
...West Hollywood even the trend-sensitive Spago thrived after the 1986 tax change. "Our best years of the decade were 1988-89," brags owner Wolfgang Puck. Or take the posh Jean-Louis at the Watergate Hotel in Washington, where dinners run $90 (excluding wine) and where 40% of the weekday customers are writing off their meals. "I wasn't hurt at all ((by the 1986 act))," says owner Jean-Louis Palladin. He suspects that the new plan could cream someone like Roberto Donna, the owner of nearby Galileo, where 80% of the lunchers are lawyers. Yet Donna isn't bellyaching...
Sarah Toby Stewart and J.C. Wolfgang Murad have extended Charlotte Perkins Gilman's short story, "The Yellow Wallpaper," into an engrossing 90 minute play. Although their attempts at moving the 1890 piece into 1993 are unsuccessful, they are also unnecessary--it's best to ignore the program and enjoy the show as a gothic social commentary on 19th century repression of women...