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Ferruccio Busoni's Second Sonata was the only really dull part of an otherwise excellent concert. The work opens and ends with a harmonically adventurous succession of chords, but everything in between, even when played beautifully (as it was), lacks in substance and fails to create a strong impression. I admire Schulte for his programming of obscure works, but perhaps he can concentrate his efforts on more deserving pieces...
...very notion of "good" writing is a subjective one and a perennial problem for "avant-garde" writers who generally receive little outside approval of their work. Even Ashbery's ascent to the ranks of "academic poetry" was-and still is-something of a mystery to his underground contemporaries. "Ashbery was even then a hero to most of us," North explains. "However, the idea that he would ever be read beyond this small circle seemed an absolute impossibility. It's hard to remember that before 1976 when he won all sorts of awards [for "Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror...
Indeed, Ashbery's poetry remains recalcitrant even to his most celebratory of academic reviewers. John Shoptaw, one of Ashbery's foremost critics, has defined Ashbery's style as a "poetics of indeterminacy"-a euphemism, perhaps, for the poetry's intimidating lack of structural or thematic unity...
Another argument that I have heard in the past few weeks suggests that Israel has made every effort to appease the Arabs. Israel has returned the Sinai Peninsula to Egypt, withdrawn its army from south Lebanon, and was even willing to return the Golan Heights to Syria in exchange for peace. The claims of the Palestinians seem like yet more demands on an endless list of claims...
...habit of thinking of the Middle East in terms of a conflict between races pervades the media even more than ordinary discussions. When an American destroyer was bombed in Yemen and two Israeli soldiers were killed in Ramallah several weeks ago, ABC News interspersed images of these two events as if the same faceless mob were behind both of them. No on watching had the sense that Yemen is over a thousand miles from Ramallah over the Arabian desert and that few Palestinians have ever even seen Yemen. (By contrast, British news agencies like the BBC and ITN were very...