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If some Romantic operas are funny (e.g., Wagner's Die Meistersinger), can some post-Romantic operas be called post-funny? That was the question raised last week by the newest work of Poland's Krzysztof Penderecki, 57, a leading European composer who has increasingly been changing the gardes, from avant...
At the heart of the Kennedy School's financial woes was the unexpectedly high price of the luxurious five-story A. Alfred Taubman Building, completed this fall.
Lowell Professor of the Humanities William Alfred remembers Rudenstine as having "a very fine mind, a very good critical mind for literature."
Alfred said that his students spoke highly of Rudenstine, frequently calling him one of the best teachers they'd had at Harvard.
"'He listens to people,' they said, 'He doesn't try to impose his ideas on them, he just helps them to have the confidence to open up their own,'" Alfred recalls.