Henry Wadsworth Longfellow would have turned 200 this year, and celebrations are planned across the U.S., especially in Longfellow’s hometown of Portland, Maine. “With the rise of modernism toward the middle of the 20th century, Longfellow lost much of his luster… But there have been signs of a reversal over the past decade or two amid renewed respect for his poetry and a focus on other aspects of his life.”
Tag: 02.27.07
Met To Continue Innovating In ’07-’08
“The Metropolitan Opera will present seven new productions next season, the most since it moved into Lincoln Center in 1966, and intensify its campaign to make opera hot — or at least mildly picante in a media-saturated world… The Met [will also] expand its increasingly popular live broadcasts in movie theaters, which started this season, to at least eight from six, and beam them into a handful of New York schools.”
Heinz Berggruen, 93
“Heinz Berggruen, a German-born Jewish art collector who in the mid-1990’s made a powerful gesture of reconciliation by moving his modern art collection to Berlin, died outside Paris on Friday. He was 93.”