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...fans, Steven Vander Ark, for his plans to publish a Harry Potter lexicon. By the standard of Rowling’s complaint, Joseph Campbell could not have published the invaluable “Skeleton Key to Finnegan’s Wake” five years after Joyce published his masterwork. The “act for the encouragement of learning” is being used to empower an author to censor an unapproved explication of her works...
...minutes you are: Going to write a masterwork...
...Symphony No. 2] is such an iconic piece that I think people who may not even typically enjoy classical music will find this to be a breathtaking performance.” Beyond the exceptional amount of time required to practice this orchestral masterwork, the four groups have also had to jump over logistical hurdles in their preparation. “It’s almost kind of an unwritten fire-hazard to get everyone on stage,” says Christine L. Barron ’09, the current president of HRO. The roughly 300 members of the combined groups...
...DIED. Gillo Pontecorvo, 86, Oscar-nominated Italian director; in Rome. A resistance leader in World War II, Pontecorvo's war experiences informed his 1965 masterwork The Battle of Algiers, which depicted the brutal reality of the 1950s Algerian uprising against French colonial rule. While the documentary-style film won three Oscar nominations and the Golden Lion at the 1966 Venice Film Festival, French authorities-outraged by its depiction of torture by French troops-banned it until...
...have to say that the most recent offering from Canada’s Junior Boys’ turns a neat trick: reestablishing and sustaining familiar tonal palette over the course of an entire album while eluding the joint specter of drudgery and repetition.Yet rather than a sprawling masterwork, “So This is Goodbye” is a cohesive album, whose melodic bass lines issue taut rejoinders to lazy keyboard echoes, delicate synth arpeggios, and efficient percussion—complete with judicious handclaps, especially on “First Time” (alas, sans cowbell).Despite the album?...