Though rarely heard, Our Hunting Fathers is one of Britten's most astonishingly precocious works, and Bell made the most of its latent operatic intensity.
With its current exhibition, "Between Two Centuries: Spain 1900," the Mapfre Foundation offers a stunning overview of that epoch with canvases that range from grand stylized portraits by Ignacio Zuloaga to the sun-dappled Mediterranean scenes of Joaquín Sorolla to precocious works by the young Dalí, Picasso and Miró.
The artist's precocious works sum up the unappeasable agitation most of the working population experiences every day.
Serge Lutens Born in 1942, Lutens is a fashion veteran: his precocious work for French Vogue in his 20s earned him the task of launching Christian Dior's make-up line in 1967, where he created an industry powerhouse.
The three folios below, from different cycles, show how the Limbourgs adapted scenes from the Bible, and paintings by other artists to produce an astonishingly precocious work of art.
Pre-revolutionary Russian films, early Hollywood genre pictures and precocious work by names such as Frank Borzage, Allan Dwan and Douglas Fairbanks revealed a picture of a lively and ambitious year in film history, including the last gasps of Europe's dominance in the world market.
Well conceived for a holiday evening, the 60-minute program started at 7 and featured two works by Mozart along with a Mendelssohn novelty: the Concerto for Violin, Piano and Strings in D minor — an exuberant, appealing and precocious work written when the composer was just 14.
(Tommasini) Bargemusic (Friday through Sunday) The young composer Mohammed Fairouz may be best known for a precocious work written in 2008 when he was just 22, "Sumeida's Song," an intense 60-minute one-act opera that effectively combines Middle Eastern and Western musical elements.
In the small community of poor Pashtun farmers who inhabit Qala-e Naw, Gulali was well liked for her prideful and precocious work ethic, and true to form, when her mother said they had enough wood and it was time to go home, Gulali insisted on felling one last tree.
Later, when Nikki Reed, the 15-year-old star and co-writer of the feature film "Thirteen," ventured to talk proudly about a new piercing, Ms. DeGeneres quashed the subject, instead encouraging the girl -- after only a cursory discussion of her precocious work as a screenwriter -- to deliver an applause line about what good grades she gets.
Her precocious early work was heavily academic and allegorical, but her theme has always been the influence of art on life.
