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Finale: Maestoso. New York, Carnegie Hall. Wagner's Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde begin at the very edge of audibility. Celibidache's pianissimi are courageous, and in them, Eros stretches provocatively. Each intense, chromatic line is achingly detailed, and when the climax of the Love-Death is reached, the effect is shattering. "Music," says Celibidache, "is a meditation. When it is transcendent, it is as transcendental as a prayer." In the concluding Scythian Suite, Celibidache unleashes Prokofiev's panoply of barbaric orchestral splendor...
...Crimson player has spent more than 20 minutes in the sin bin.... The ECAC Final Four, always a hot ticket, could boil over this year. With three of the four Beanpot teams hosting quarterfinals this weekend, there should be a lot of local interest in next week's tourney climax at the Boston Garden.... Bright Center was only one-third full last night. "I'm sure the weather had something to do with it," said Cleary. He added that some of his best fans graduated last year. "That senior class had a lot of spirit," he said.... Referce John...
...Climax to a $270 million scam
...team, February is the ski season, as well as the climax of a training program that begins in mid-October on dry land and takes its skiers to New Hampshire and Vermont almost every weekend from Thanksgiving on, including a week-long Christmas camp in December With a total of only three meets on its schedule--on three successive weekends this month--the team has not had much of a chance this winter to ease up in its effort to qualify for the Division II championships next weekend in Syracuse...
...question of questions. Not will he or won't he; that had never been in serious doubt. Rather, the problem was how art fully he would break the news everyone expected. He put on a virtuoso performance, orchestrating a long roll of drums that built skillfully to its preordained climax. By the time Reagan appeared on the screen Sunday night, his re-election campaign was already off to a rousing start...