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Perimeter Check
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Published on July 23, 2008 --- For information about this year's Warebrook Festival click here.
Composer and Warebrook festival director Sara Doncaster, stands with performers at the conclusion of her piece, “At That Hour,” and of the 2008 edition of the festival. Tenor Jon Garrison bows at left. Clarinetist Mark Margolies, percussionist Aaron Trant, cellist Darry Solezal and conductor Paul Brust enjoy the ovation that greeted Ms. Doncaster’s work. Photos by Joseph Gresser
DERBY LINE — The Warebrook Contemporary Music Festival wrapped up a weekend of performances Saturday night, July 12, with a concert at the Haskell Opera House. In addition to the superb performances of contemporary music that are the series’ hallmark, director Sara Doncaster introduced a new wrinkle to the fifteenth edition of the festival — young local musicians performing on the same bill as older, professional players.
One of the youthful performers, Owen Tatum of Derby, also had “Water,” a woodwind quartet he composed, given its world premiere by a mixed group of students and professionals.
Goats graze through an olive grove near Ulcinj, on the sourthern coast of Montenegro. Besides the Serbian adventures discussed in this article, Mr. Braithwaite worked with journalists in Montenegro, Croatia, Slovenia and Albania. Photos by Chris Braithwaite
The Belgrade bus is rocketing along the two-lane road, swinging crisply through the curves and churning up the hills to provide stunning views of the Danube, of the fresh-cut hayfields, the orchards and vineyards that line the road. But I am finally immune to the scenery, partly because I have seen enough of it since my first visit to Smederevo eight months ago in November, partly because I am distracted, trying to understand what Vladan is saying on the mobile phone crushed to my ear.
I try to ignore the sound of something solid crashing from the luggage rack onto the floor just beside me. I try to ignore the excited comments, in Serbian, of the woman sitting behind me. But I can’t ignore the conductor when he makes his way down the aisle, picks up the fallen object, and hands it to me. It is (or was) my laptop computer.
Sculptor Frederick Franck dedicated this work to Thomas Berry in 2006. A plaque at its base reads, “Like that of St. Francis of Assisi, Thomas Berry’s life testifies to the indestructible human spirit, the surviving triumph of human wisdom over all the follies and cruelties of our generation.” The sculpture stands on the grounds of the Green Mountain Monastery in Greensboro where Father Thomas Berry was buried June 8. Photos by Joseph Gresser
GREENSBORO — Thomas Berry, a priest and scholar who described himself as a geologian, was buried in a meadow here Monday afternoon. The funeral, one of four services held in his honor at different places that were significant in his long life, was attended by over 100 people most of whom regarded him as a mentor. He encouraged the establishment of Green Mountain Monastery in Greensboro.
Father Thomas Berry, a Catholic priest of the Passionist Order, was born in 1914 and ordained in 1942. He died on the first of June. During his 94 years Mr. Berry had at least three distinct careers, according to one of his former students, Daniel Sheridan, who recently retired as vice president of St. Joseph’s College of Maine. They were as a student of Chinese philosophy, a teacher of religions of the world and of the Earth’s history and theology.
