Her mature poetry of the Forties and Fifties is a rich harvest festival of Christian affirmation.
The area was rich in festival arts, with a strong retention from pre-Christian traditions and magic rites.
Crossing the Line, a rich multidisciplinary festival produced annually by the French Institute Alliance Française, opens on Thursday with the United States premiere of "Systema Occam," a richly sensual work by the French composer Éliane Radigue and the visual artist Xavier Veilhan.
The latter region, which includes several well-defined areas such as the Appenzell in Switzerland, the Tirol in Austria, and the Alto Adige in the south Tirol, now a part of Italy is rich in festival arts, ceremonial foods, and implements associated with dairying (even musical cowbells).
"It's our hope to create a festival rich in content and rich in experience," said Rebecca Yeldham, the festival's new director.
The dance-rich Lincoln Center Festival is no more, alas, but some of the slack is being picked up by the newly expanded Mostly Mozart Festival (July 12-Aug. 12-Aug. 12
This detachment would not actually be a problem if artists received richer data about festival attendees yet, despite the advancement of technologies like RFID and even facial recognition, audience identification, targeting and followup remain surprisingly difficult precisely because the artist-audience connection in question is so casual.
Looked at one way, a music festival, however rich in ancillary events, fails if the central musical elements fail.
And this week Mr. Wachner kicked off the second annual Twelfth Night Festival, a rich musical celebration of the 12 days of Christmas that continues through Jan . 6
