Another prize -- the Pulitzer -- was awarded to Aaron Jay Kernis, whose "Overture in Feet and Meters" is to have its New Jersey premiere when Hugh Wolff, the orchestra's former director, returns to New Jersey after Christmas.
Among smaller movies opening on Wednesdays are this week's "Bottle Shock" and "Sixty Six". "We think our movie plays really, really well," says Chris McGurk, whose Overture Films will release Don Cheadle's terrorist drama "Traitor" on Aug. 27 in order to get a jump on the Labor Day holiday.
(As it happens, the actor whose overtures she was resisting is my own father, Lyle Talbot; the scene always bothered me as a kid, because Shirley was so dismissive of him).
He opened the speech with a well-received ice-breaker, referring to Bruce S. Gordon, the president of the N.A.A.C.P., whose overtures to Mr. Bush ended the president's no-show status.
The breakdown left just one known bidder in the field -- a government-backed British consortium known as the Phoenix Project, whose overtures BMW rejected only Thursday on the ground that its financing was uncertain.
So far, its tactics seem to involve holding Mr. Obama out of the firing line, fashioning the subtext that he appears to be an amenable guy whose overtures toward Russia are being undermined by dark, retrograde forces.
Peña Nieto, whose overtures to Trump helped send his approval ratings into single digits, will reward Kushner on Friday by awarding him the Aztec Eagle, the highest honor Mexico bestows on foreigners.
Ending sanctions has been a major goal of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, whose overtures to the West have met resistance from domestic hard-liners and from U.S. lawmakers opposed to rapprochement.
Mr. Dawson, whose new "Overture" will have its premiere with the Dutch National Ballet on June 15, said that he was not trying to reinvent classical ballet but that the form had changed, in part because dancers are so much more physically and technically capable today than a few decades ago.
Who they are: The engineer with hard-to- replace skills whose creepy overtures get overlooked.
Samuel Goldwyn, Billy Wilder, Jerry Lewis, Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson, Steven Spielberg, Harvey Weinstein, Terrence Malick, Tobey Maguire and Leonardo DiCaprio are among those whose Catcher overtures have been declined.
