account of the "alien and terrifying" opening pages of the finale of Mahler's Sixth Symphony is typical. "From the thud of a low C," Steinberg wrote, "there arises an encompassing swirl of strangely luminous dust: harp glissandos, a woodwind chord, ...
So after all the buzz about the YouTube Symphony Orchestra altering forever the auditioning process; after months of interactive computer chat about the world's first collaborative online orchestra; after 96 winning players were selected from more than ...
There is no more overtly political act than the drawing of political districts. Fortunes can rise and fall on the turn of a mapmaker’s pen. A redraw of state lines in Texas sent the state’s legislative Democrats into hiding across state lines. The late ...
Aug. 11, 2007, was a pivotal day in the race for the Republican presidential nomination, but not for the reason most political junkies would suspect. While the national media were focused on Mitt Romney’s victory in the Iowa Straw Poll, down in Florida, ...
BEIJING AND TORONTO Tibetans prefer to hang their prayer flags at the highest altitudes. When the flags flutter in the wind, it makes them feel that the gods are listening. The Majnu Ka Tila refugee colony, a jumble of dusty stone buildings on the ...
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