(Smith) Red Light New Music (Monday) This enterprising new-music ensemble fashions an appealing program around two selections from "The Viola in My Life," a splendid cycle by Morton Feldman, featuring the violist Erin Wight.
Since 2000's vibrant and delightfully dirty Angelica's Grotto - about an old man discovering internet sex in a way that's surprisingly sweet - Hoban has written almost a book a year, piecing together a splendid cycle of novels about the very weird relations between men and women.
In the seventh novel of Kennedy's splendid Albany cycle, Roscoe Conway, heir to the city's three-time mayor, operator and fixer and finder of needful cash, runs out of zeal for the political game and falls in love, of all comic possibilities, with another man's wife.
In the seventh novel of Kennedy's splendid Albany cycle, Roscoe Conway, heir to the city's three-time mayor, operator and fixer and finder of needful cash, runs out of zeal for politics and falls in love with another man's wife.
Why stay static on a fitness bike when you can cycle amid splendid mountain scenery?
Half a century later, on the lower Rhine, a new spirit and mentality were expressed in two splendid but drastically repainted cycles at Schwarz Rheindorf and at Brauweiler, near Cologne, where elegantly drawn figures play against panels and frames of blue and green, illustrating recondite and complicated iconographic programs.
Between Opera North's splendid semi-stagings of the four parts of Wagner's Ring cycle over the past four years, and next year's complete cycles, there was a Wagnerian gap.
What kind of god would do that?" "Yes, the world is very splendid, but it also has in it insects whose whole life cycle is to burrow into the eyes of children and make them blind," he said. .
It is the latest, typically high-reaching installment in Mr. Wilson's rich cycle chronicling the black American experience in the 20th century, which includes splendid works like "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" and "Joe Turner's Come and Gone".
Mr. Keenlyside, accompanied by the splendid pianist Julius Drake, was also in his element in Ravel's "Histoires Naturelles," a song cycle about animals.
All splendid aims; but sceptics wonder if Mr Obasanjo has what it takes to achieve them, and to end the cycle of political corruption that feeds directly into bloodshed.
