I heard the rumors from staff at the Film Center several weeks ago, but now it appears to be official: the guild theater will likely close for good starting this summer. It was a tattered theater with uncomfortable seats and was typically freezing or balmy depending on the season; however, in principle it acted as [...]
http://www.schott-music.com/news/komponistennews/show,3336.html … In his Musica Ricercata, a set of 11 pieces for solo piano, Ligeti once likened each note as "a knife in Stalin's heart," 50 years after their composition (in 1953). He wrote the work partly in response to a Communist ban on western "decadence" in art. His works are deeply affecting, emotional and [...]
The Navy's response: Navy Rear Admiral Harry Harris: "They have no regard for human life, neither ours nor their own. I believe this was not an act of desperation but an act of asymmetric warfare against us." General Jack D. Ripper: "Your Commie has no regard for human life. Not even his own."