Word: opus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...elite Royal Blues choir, honor roll, yearbook, the whole deal. They were the most popular kids at the biggest school in town, a public school but a prestigious one--it even has a lacrosse team--a place so idyllic that Hollywood came there to film Mr. Holland's Opus...
April 2 marked the performance of what just could be the new soundtrack for The Phantom Menace. Not exclusively modern, the program did include Brahms' "Piano Quarter in minor, Opus 25" along with Bohuslav Martin's more contemporary "Memorial to Lidice" and Bela Bartok's "Violin Concerto No. 2." Even this was tainted by the great Modernist Arnold Schoenber who re-arranged the chamber piece for orchestra. According to the program notes, "Johannes Brahms and Arnold Schoenberg are [not-so] strange bedfellows" in a filigree of 20th century musical fracas that indeed would have made Obi-Wan proud...
...Freshman visionaries have spearheaded this radically salacious dramatic opus. The kiddos scripted and composed the music all by themselves. Imagine that! Mom and dad will show up for "a slew of dirty secrets, six self-indulgent students and one seedy night at a Chinese restaurant-rank with sweet-and-sour excess." Get a scorpion bowl's worth of intrigue, debauchery and political incorrectness at the Agassiz, April...
...prove them. That wouldn't do. Hardy brought him to England in 1914, and the pair spent four years working to prove the self-taught mathematician's intuitively brilliant conjectures. Alas, Ramanujan hated England and died of tuberculosis in 1920 at age 32--with so much of his opus left unproved that mathematicians today are still working...
...course, there is Kubrick's magnum opus, 2001: A Space Odyssey, a science fiction film unrivaled in its scope, majesty, and depth. Indeed, the black monoliths that from the centerpiece of Kubrick's masterpiece have become a cultural symbol of sorts, a sign of something powerful but unknown. And the voice of H.A.L. will haunt our experiments with computers and artificial intelligence for years to come...