As a six-year-old, hearing that music - especially because it starts with the men's voices and it's very chromatic - I would take the needle off the record a few seconds after the Requiem excerpt started because it was so scary.
He and his quartet mates Min-Young Kimm, violinist; Jessica Thompson, violist; Raman Ramakrishnan, cellist) played excerpts, starting with the final movement, an elaborate fugue with four subjects.
(The I-can-prove-Maria-Callas-was-the-greatest-in-just-three-notes excerpt, it starts at 3 58).
And here's where to read the excerpt that started it all.
Then, with Mr. Manahan waving goodbye, the entire orchestra, piano included, descended into the pit, and the opera excerpts began, starting with the bright-voiced soprano Anna Christy singing "Blue green beautiful chlorine" from William Bolcom's wryly comic opera "A Wedding".
The comments excerpted above start at around 9 45.
GQ will publish an excerpt about Keith Olbermann and Dan Patrick starting Monday on its Web site.
We're specifically going back to April 6th, 1968, The second night of The Who's Friday/Saturday debut gig at the fabled Fillmore East... Excerpt aka Chapter 8 starts... now!
Here's a place to start: An excerpt from Facts on the Ground: Archaeological Practice and Territorial Self-Fashioning in Israeli Society by Nadia Abu El-Haj In 1971, Amos Elon, an Israeli journalist, first wrote of "the extraordinary appeal..
Here's an excerpt to get you started.
