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...World String Quartet began the symposium, "Approaches to a Musical Masterwork," with a performance of the German composer's String Quarter in F Major, Opus...
Which ties it to THE GRADUATE (Harvard Square). Mike Nichols' masterwork whips the desperation motif into full-fledged obsession with a strong 60's tinge. It's Dustin Hoffman's first film role and arguably his best as the boy next door seduced by the mother next door who falls for the girl next door. For freshmen, at least one screening is as perfunctory as first-year writing class--not to be practiced on vacations, but for collegiate literacy the next time someone mumbles, "Just like The Graduate...
...American Repertory Theater at Harvard. Last week the newest candidate took center stage. The American National Theater, headed by Peter Sellars, 27, opened at Washington's Kennedy Center with a less than wondrous Henry IV, Part I by that "American," William Shakespeare. Sellars' rationale for starting with an Elizabethan masterwork rather than, say, a Eugene O'Neill tragedy is to rediscover the plays and grandiloquent production styles that were popular at the dawning of the modern American theater. Indeed, the next show, which he will direct, is The Count of Monte Cristo, a French romantic drama that O'Neill...
...many a reader, Mark Twain is the foremost American novelist and his masterwork is The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. This year, the book's centenary, has brought several Huck Finn stage productions. It has also brought a renewed outcry from some who want the novel barred from school libraries. The book is racist, say these critics, who note that it repeatedly uses the word nigger and that it distresses young black students. Last week defenders of Huck as a satire of racism were bolstered by news that Twain, a.k.a. Samuel Clemens, had recorded his views of black and white...
...forced a shutter of one of the chapel windows. Once inside, they cut away the altarpiece with a razor blade and marched out the front door with their prize: an 8-ft. by 7-ft. canvas, the Nativity, painted by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio in 1609. The uninsured masterwork was valued at $3 million...