A Premiere, a Fire Alarm and a Second Chance
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Shortly before his death in 2002, Ralph Shapey completed â2 for 5,â a clarinet quintet for the Juilliard String Quartet and Charles Neidich. Mr. Neidich and the Juilliard players gave the work its premiere on Monday.
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Summer's over, school is back, but the consolation of fall was always that the best films, shows, CDs and books were ripe for picking. Now there's too much competition, too much stuff. How to figure out what's worthy? Here is a warts-and-all preview, arranged from sublime to subprime.
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Over the weekend, Mt. St. Helens showed again that it may be ready to rattle and sputter back to life
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How the end of a product turned into a publicity event â and maybe, a new beginning.
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The call came in at 6:29 pm and eight seconds. Within five seconds, the first trucks were dispatched. Within three minutes and 22 seconds, the first firefighters arrived at 135 S. LaSalle St.
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Arson investigators get on their hands and knees to track how and where suspicious fires began. Then they have to find the fire-starter, who could be a flame-obsessed kid, a property owner seeking an insurance payout -- or even a firefighter looking for glory.
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ItÂs Black on Black this weekÂ preceding the big Black Bhansali opus which opens next week.
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Now hereÂs something that just happened to catch our eye.
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Let the news ring out from Lincoln Center. Send word by satellite radio. Trumpet it in Times Square. An exciting new era was born at the staid old Metropolitan Opera on Monday night.
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Fireworks explode over Sydney&#39;s Harbor at 9pm local time (1100 GMT) in the first of two fireworks displays to welcome in the New Year, Friday, Dec. 31, 2004.
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&quot;At 9:45 am (2:45 am British time) we received the signal for a methane blast. At the time, a 45-strong repair team was working in that.
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To have a chance, you first have to have a plan.
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Timing is everything, in comedy and tragedy.
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The first major screen adaptation of the events leading up to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States received its world premiere in the Scottish capital Edinburgh.
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Fire flickers, dangerous and beckoning, beneath the frost of John Doyle's elegant, unexpectedly stirring revival of "Company."
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Is this the chance you've been waiting for? It could be.
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Reporter Ahmad Taufik caught a break as he looked for a follow-up story after a fire devoured a centuries-old garment market in the heart of town last year. A city official had told him anonymously that plans to renovate the market were submitted by a powerful businessman three months before the fire.