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...Argento's eighth opera, and as fine as any ever written by an American. Its success is an appropriate sequel to the Pulitzer Prize he won last year for his song cycle From the Diary of Virginia Woolf. He is a rarity among composers in that he knew nothing about music until age 14 (when he read a book about Gershwin), and did not begin piano lessons until 16. Three years later he was a piano major at Baltimore's Peabody Conservatory of Music. The first summer he read the letters of Mozart. Recalls Argento...
Broader Interest. Perahia spent his sabbatical in London. He went to the theater and read constantly: Huxley, Woolf, Joyce, Homer. He discovered a musical colony that is far more diverse than the one camped along Manhattan's Central Park West. Praising the BBC's role in educating English audiences, Perahia claims that interest in serious music is far broader in Britain than in the U.S. "In London," he insists, "there isn't anybody on the street who hasn't heard that Benjamin Britten is composing again...
...they've spent the last three years shackled to their carrels in B-level Widener. It all began inauspiciously, as someone was to comment so aptly in The Crimson the next day, with the first speaker, in a white suit and reading something you couldn't understand from Virginia Woolf, forgetting the part about half way through and just kind of sweating it out until the end when Mr. Chapman--that's Mr. Robert Chapman, who ran the contest--says real politely as if nothing happened, Your time is up. You could tell the guy would fuck up when...
...years. Little that is in her letters contributes to an understanding of that first work, The Voyage Out. The editors make a case for certain parallels in characterization and action (the death of both Rachel and Thoby, for instance) but such parallels, especially when compared to those in Woolf's later novels To the Lighthouse and The Years, are quite tenuous...
...when he was a child, says the letters give quite an accurate representation of her conversation. One reason she charted the vicissitudes of character in her novels was that her style was flexible enough to do so. By the end of this volume of her letters, one realizes why Woolf wrote as she did. This was the style closest to her heart, embodying her personality--quick, sharp and radiant...