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Not all ravensare white; Philip Glass.(modern composers: Philip Glass)(Brief Article)
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Atmospheric Glass
A new opera explores travel fever and restlessness
THE music of Philip Glass is repetitious, everyone knows that. Not only are the repeated pulsing rhythmic patterns, melodic figures and chord progressions the hallmark of Mr Glass's style, but those same rhythms, melodies and minor-key chords reappear in piece after piece. The selection of Mr Glass as the featured composer at this summer's Lincoln Centre festival was not greeted with unanimous enthusiasm among New York critics wanting to move on. Ho hum, they sang in chorus, another opera with Robert ...
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'White Raven' takes flight: Philip Glass's opera melds inventive drama and flights of sheer fancy.(Features)(Arts & Leisure)
Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor
; ...isolated sections. White Raven encapsulates the qualities of both Glass and Wilson that...American premiere, White Raven offers hope that...partnership of Wilson and Glass may become a more...Mohandas Gandhi in Glass's superb opera Satyagraha...and filled three White ...
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After white raven.
Magazine article from: Studies in the Humanities
; White raven soared above golden spruce for too short...normal as any other day in the year, a white raven appeared on Haida Gwaii. Seen only by...to convince himself he hadn't seen a white raven. It wasn't an eaglet, since they are...
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Glass is here to stay: quality image, heat resistance and attractive price: Glass. In recent years this packaging material has been ousted from large parts of the supermarket shelves by plastic packaging alternatives. This trend has now halted. For glass is far superior to plastics insofar as inertness, customer appeal, decoration options and price are concerned.(Packaging)
Magazine article from: Food Engineering & Ingredients
; Ask any glass manufacturer, and he will paint you a rosy picture of the future. That may seem strange. Glass packaging lost a lot of ground when clear...are working hard to find alternatives to glass which are just as inert, impermeable and...
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ONLY RECENTLY HAVE TECHNIQUES BEEN DEVELOPED TO JOIN TWO PIECES OF GLASS
Magazine article from: The Architects' Journal
; Glass is such a good structural medium that in the 16th century...that techniques have been developed to attach two pieces of glass together. Pieces of wood can be joined with wood pins hammered...rivets are similarly hammered into holes in plates. Joining glass to glass, however, necessitates a ...
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REFLECTIONS ON Glass Works
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; Glass -- the product that adorns virtually every room in a home...both simplicity and complexity. The simple aspect is that glass is made from one of the world's most common resources...gourds or leather bags to serve as repositories for fluids. Glass bowls and cups were yet to come. 4000 B.C. Egyptians ...
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Architecture: Is Glass Really All That It's Cracked Up To Be?
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; GLASS IS one of the oldest building materials. And yet, as these projects by Britain's leading architects show, using glass adventurously to make light-filled public buildings on a...condensation. The appearance of cracks and clouding in new glass buildings has shattered its reputation. "Ninety nine times...
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Glass Class Offers A Clear Alternative; Millennium Center Fires Up Imaginations
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; Glass can be an unpredictable medium. An artist can cut it, glue...Tim Tate and Kari Minnick, the directors of Meltdown, a glass program at the Millennium Arts Center, understand this, are...Meltdown at the end of summer to teach methods of working with glass to artists who've made their careers in other ...
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Calatrava glass like a rubber band
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
; Calatrava glass like a rubber band By JAMES AUER Journal Sentinel art critic Sunday, November 5, 2000 Glass is a primary, if barely visible, component...75 million Santiago Calatrava addition. Glass will render the sleek, boat-shaped structure...
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Art; From Fire Into Light; At the National Gallery, Glass Transformations
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; Glass, like water or clouds or the eye, captures light. Two slabs...The 1976 sculpture - conceived, fused in molds of crushed glass, cut and polished by Czechoslovakians Stanislav Libensky...Brychtova - inflames the National Gallery of Art's "The Art of Glass: Masterpieces From the Corning Museum." The ...
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Return of the White Raven: Postdiluvial Reconnaissance Motif A2234.1.1 Reconsidered
Magazine article from: Journal of American Folklore
; ...scavenging post-Flood scout and its "White Raven" version. In her monograph The Raven...Raven and the Carcass" motif and its "White Raven" version existed in the New World prior...growing. Old Woman and Old Man sent a white raven to investigate if the earth had grown...
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