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...jubilation in conservation circles last month when a newly formed U.S. Park Service antipoaching unit pulled off a classic sting operation, arresting 27 citizens from Texas to Florida in the biggest poaching bust in Park Service history. The feds posed as amateur herpetologists and would-be buyers; the crime ring's alleged kingpin, who regularly carried a semiautomatic pistol, gave up without a fight. The Park Service carried out the operation for only...
Brautigam offers sharp, pointed playing reminiscent of John Browning. Superior recording circumstances have allowed his cutting solo lines to ring with intensity. Chailly and the Concertgebouw supply restrained accompaniment that seems too intimate at times. The Piano Concerto, after all, does offer many more serious ideas than the Jazz Suites...
Music: A new Ring cycle at Bayreuth, the Wagner shrine where strife...
...Time and again the cast is left singing directly to the audience -- just like the bad old days when operas were turned into stiff pageants. Some awkward direction will be corrected next year. Bayreuth stages no new productions of Wagner's other operas during the second year of any Ring cycle, wisely using time and money to make improvements, which can be extensive...
...bill the calls to other people's numbers, managed to rake in up to $200,000 in just six months before police raided the store in June. "They were basically operating their own phone company," says Bill Brush of the Secret Service, the agency involved in breaking up the ring. "It was pure profit...