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- Mahler in Haitink's expert hands - Chicago Sun-Times
At once a perfect and unlikely match, the modest and no-nonsense Dutchman and the virtuoso and storied orchestra read each other almost telepathically, and the intentions of the conductor, 79, are rewarded with sublime work by the players ...
- Navigating the post-Nirvana world - Minneapolis Star Tribune
Navigating the post-Nirvana worldMinneapolis Star Tribune, MN - 26 minutes ago(English majors: Is Altschul's decision to make Calliope practice an art form [poetry], of which pop celebrity seems unlikely at best, a flaw in the novel ...
- Performers boost China's profile - Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Performers boost China's profilePittsburgh Post Gazette, PA - 1 hour agoLocal talent also took to the stage, including high school seniors and poetry readers Peter Wong and Chelsea Cramer, and junior Adam Handen, ...
- Money Can’t Buy Time - New York Times Blogs
The average human being will be substantially richer in 50 years, just as the average American today has a real income three times what it was in 1955. But the average human being will not have much more time in 50 years than today; and life ...
- Jenny Diski tries to stay awake - London Review of Books (subscription)
Jenny Diski tries to stay awakeLondon Review of Books (subscription), UK - 2 hours agoShearsman Books published his prose Journals in 2006. James Meek’s most recent novel, We Are Now Beginning Our Descent, was awarded the Prince Maurice prize ...
- Population and Census - Hartford Courant
When same-sex couples wed in California and Massachusetts, they do so believing that their marriage licenses mean that their relationships finally count in the eyes of the state. Unfortunately, they won't count in the eyes of the U.S. Census Bureau ...
- A soaring tribute to a poet's vision of America - Boston Globe
Boston GlobeA soaring tribute to a poet's vision of AmericaBoston Globe, United States - 19 hours agoThe piece is in six movements, five of which set excerpts from Crane's best known poem, "The Bridge." "The Harbor Dawn" paints a murky portrait of a New ...
- Long Branch poetry series makes great summer readings - Independent
The Long Branch Summer Poetry Series continues Wednesday, July 23, with an appearance by one of the founders of the Language Poetry movement. An accomplished essayist and speaker as well as a sought-after editor, translator and academic, New York ...
- Healing The Hood: Anti-Gang Street Festival (CBS 2 Chicago)
Little Village, a neighborhood that was home to two of the 24 Chicago Public School students murdered in the last year is having a street festival as part of an anti-gang strategy.
- Composer Pays Hotchkiss Visit - Litchfield County Times
Composer Pays Hotchkiss VisitLitchfield County Times, CT - 4 hours ago"I write a great deal of choral music but I like to use American poetry for the words when I can get permission. When I do write the words, ...
- Steve’s lineup: Funny, lively stage performers - Carbondale Valley Journal
Steve’s lineup: Funny, lively stage performersCarbondale Valley Journal, CO - 2 hours agoSmith writes the column “Irrelativity” that appears weekly in The Aspen Times and also makes short films, plays a bit of guitar, doodles and writes poetry. ...
- Vigil for victims (FSView)
The Florida State Chinese Students and Scholars Association congregated on Landis Green to participate in singing songs and reading poetry to pray, mourn and say goodbye to the victims of the powerful earthquake in Chengdu, China with a candle light vigil late Thursday evening.
- Ozark Profile : Age doesn’t have to mean limitations - Northwest Arkansas News
One cannot look around Ree Mills house without getting a story. Painted plates adorn the wall. (She made them herself. ) Awards and photos fill bulletin boards and scrapbooks. On a rainy spring afternoon, Mills sat down and told her story several ...
- Magical, mystical, historical romp - Globe and Mail
Magical, mystical, historical rompGlobe and Mail, Canada - 28 minutes agoUcello, a lover of Petrarch's poetry, can dream in seven languages. "He picked up languages the way most soldiers picked up diseases," Rushdie writes, ...
- Stage Whispers - CV5 Coventry Communities
Stage WhispersCV5 Coventry Communities, UK - 8 hours agoCOMEDY and poetry is on offer at the Godiva Festival at the Memorial Park in Coventry this weekend as well as top music. Rufus Hound, Carl Donnelly, ...
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