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Palestinian guerrilla leaders are as edgy as anyone. When George Habash, leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, recently entered Beirut's American University Hospital for treatment of a heart condition, a squad of bodyguards donned hospital white and took up positions near his bed. "All...
THE GHOST OF WAGNER has rightfully been forced to abdicate his position as supreme arbiter of musical taste. "Compromise" theories on the performance of early music, thinly disguising a rampant romanticism, are no longer acceptable. Increasingly, aesthetic balance in musical performance--appropriate instruments and style of execution for each period...
In the execution of his own pieces he generally took the time very brisk, but contrived, besides this briskness, to introduce so much variety in his performance that under his hand every piece was, as it were, like discourse. When he wished to express strong emotions, he did not do...
Excepting some minor technical lapses (such as the unfortunate fact that a harpsichord tends to go flat under the same conditions which make a transverse flute go sharp), Monday's performances were marvelous, exemplifying all that one could ask for in the playing of Baroque chamber works--stylistic authenticity, expressive...
IN THE COMING OF AGE. Simone de Beauvoir recounts the plot of the ancient Japanese novel Narayanan. It tells of the primitive custom, the "Feast of the Dead", the execution of village elders who have become a burden on their children or have merely reached on untenable age. "Do the...