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1 With 69-Across,
filmmaker born
12/1/1935 who
directed and
wrote five films in
this puzzle
6 Apparel
10 Sacramento’s
state, briefly
13 “Most certainly!”
15 Language that
gave us “khaki”
16 Spanish she-bear
17 Look that way
18 With 59-Across,
1980 film by
1-/69-Across
20 Suffers from
21 Sneaky tactic
23 Kosher
24 Diagnostic
machine
26 Make __ for:
argue in favor of
27 2011 film by
1-/69-Across
31 Being kept cold
32 Sardinian six
33 1971 film by
1-/69-Across
36 1973 film by
1-/69-Across
42 Junio, por
ejemplo
44 Low voice
45 1995 film by
1-/69-Across
52 Like a softly
blowing fan
53 Nincompoops
54 Windy City
airport
55 One of the
deadly sins
56 Camp bed
59 See 18-Across
61 Camden Yards
ballplayer
64 Spanish gold
65 Sit for an artist
66 Have a place to
call home
67 “__ the
ramparts ... ”
68 Figure (out)
69 See 1-Across
DOWN
1 Genie’s offer
2 Most fit for service
3 Keats works
4 __ Bums:
Brooklyn Dodgers
nickname
5 “Despite that ... ”
6 Tailor’s inserts
7 Major
thoroughfares
8 Nutritional meas.
9 Sack material
10 Mountain lion
11 Birthplace of St.
Francis
12 Coffee drinks
with steamed
milk
14 Hip-hop
headgear
19 Prefix meaning
“ten”
22 “That’s awful!”
24 Ancient Peruvian
25 Personal
bearing
27 Unruly group
28 Words before
flash or jiffy
29 Cacophony
30 Zip, in soccer
scores
34 Novelist Tan
35 Smooth, as a
transition
37 Black, to a bard
38 “CSI” actor
George
39 Tire pressure
meas.
40 S.C. clock setting
41 Fish eggs
43 Husbands and
wives
45 Cow sound in
“Old MacDonald”
46 Response from
another room
47 Supermodel’s
allure: Var.
48 Prefix with scope
49 Annoying types
50 Info on a store
door: Abbr.
51 Helicopter
component
56 Slinky shape
57 Merrie __
England
58 High schooler,
typically
60 Letters that
promise payback
62 Stephen of “The
Crying Game”
63 Alcatraz, e.g:
Abbr.
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thing that I didn’t even really
have to think about, I just felt
like I wanted to do it, so I did
it,” Andres said.
Andres — who was in St.
Paul, supervising the premiere
of his new piano concerto The
Blind Banister — studied piano
with Eleanor Hancock in New
York for many years, from his
childhood through high school,
before becoming more serious
about composition in their later
time together. Andres began
his serious composition studies
during high school, taking les-
sons through the Juilliard pre-
college program.
“I guess the composition
sort of gradually became more
and more important to me as I
studied it more seriously, until
the writing and the playing
were sort of on equal footing,
and feeding into each other,”
Andres said.
“After high school I decided
to go to Yale, rather than go to
a conservatory,” Andres said of
his post high school education,
explaining how he earned both
his undergraduate degree and
master’s degree from the uni-
versity.
“It was just sort of a gut
feeling I had at the time that I
would have found a conserva-
tory kind of stifling,” he said
of his decision to attend a uni-
versity rather than a conser-
vatory. “I don’t do well with
bureaucracy or authority … and
conservatories tend to be very
rigid atmospheres … (addition-
ally) I always knew I wanted to
be a professional musician, but I
also wanted to study more than
just music.”
The piece being performed
this Wednesday was composed
by Andres for the Takács Quar-
tet, which was formed in 1975
and is the quartet-in-residence
at the University of Colorado
Boulder. Discussing the piece,
Strong Language, Andres spoke
about its inspiration.
“In many ways it was inspired
directly by the quartet’s play-
ing. I went to hear the Takács
Quartet a little less than a year
ago in New York, and I knew
I was about to start writing a
piece for them, so I was kind of
looking for things … that made
their playing especially their
own,” Andres said.
“And what impressed me
about their playing was their
sense of gesture — being con-
veyed by four different people
— that was so unified and so
clear, so that it almost seemed
like the music was taking on
these physical forms,” the com-
poser explained. “I got the idea
that the piece would have these
very simple gestures that would
be elaborated upon and varied
over the course of the three
movements.”
Andres composed the cen-
tral movement of the piece
before the first and last, begin-
ning with music that was “very
still and quiet, and then gradu-
ally expanded outward in both
directions, little by little, so
that by the time it ended … it
was this very grand and expres-
sive, (with a) leaping melody,”
the composer said.
According to Andres, the first
movement of Strong Language
works in a similar way. The
movement is built on initially
unaccompanied
arch-shaped
melodies which repeat and
grow more elaborate through-
out the movement.
“Each time that melody is
repeated these kind of sub-
strata, these layers of decayed
material kind of pile up under-
neath it, so each time the mel-
ody gets more embellished and
more harmonized, and more
just kind of noisy,” Andres said.
“That movement is called
‘Middens,’ which is a type of
archeological
site
which
is
basically an ancient trash pile
— this kind of process of lay-
ers piling up over the ages,” the
composer said.
Andres draws on classical
tradition for the structure of
Strong Language’s last move-
ment. The final movement is
“a chaconne, or a passacaglia,
based on a sequence of chords
in the bass that are repeated
in a cycle,” Andres said. The
chaconne is a variation form
that was very popular during
the Baroque period in the 17th
and 18th centuries, but fell out
of favor until composers such
as Britten and Shostakovich
revived it in the mid 1900s.
“It starts with hearing those
chords and these very quiet,
diffuse noises in the upper
strings,” Andres said. “And
eventually those noises fill in to
become this perpetual motion
cycling
rhythm.
The
lower
strings take on a melodic role
underneath that, and that ends
up leading to these reminis-
cences of the other two move-
ments in the end.”
Composed in the spring of
this year, Strong Language was
premiered less than a month
ago by the Takács Quartet, who
will be performing it again on
Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. in Rack-
ham Auditorium. Also on the
program will be favorites from
the 18th and 19th centuries, by
Haydn and Dvorák, respectively.
LITERATURE COLUMN
Literary hipness
A
s soon as the calendar flips
to Dec. 1, I begin to ponder
my upcoming New Year’s
resolutions. For most of my life,
my resolutions were oriented on
self-improve-
ment. My
past resolu-
tions include
“stop losing
shit,” “stop
being late
to literally
everything”
and “stop
eating
so much
Nutella.” These resolutions had
an unsurprising expiration date of
about a month.
But in 2015, I made a new
kind of resolution. I decided that
instead of trying to change myself,
I would plunge into something
that I actually love to do. My 2015
resolution was to read a book a
week for the whole year, 52 books
in total.
Of course, when the person
with whom you’re negotiat-
ing resolutions with is yourself,
it’s easy to become indulgent. I
quickly realized during the finals
of winter semester that there
would be some weeks when I
just couldn’t swing it. So I made
up for the school year lapses in
excess over the summer, furiously
reading when I should have been
selling ice cream in an non-air-
conditioned shack in August.
And December has arrived
again. When I realized this col-
umn was coming out on Dec. 1,
I wanted to highlight and share
all the thoughtful and insight-
ful books that had been written
and published in 2015. I flipped
through the planner where I write
the book of the week on the top of
the page. I frowned and searched
again. Out of the 48 books I had
read so far this year, almost none
of them came out in 2015.
Looking back on the year, this
made sense. My freshman year
of college exposed me to new
authors and styles. There seemed
to be an endless number of classics
that should have been fundamen-
tal to high school reading that
somehow I had skipped. I wanted
to read Jeffrey Eugenides, Junot
Díaz and Joan Didion. I was so
busy reading the defining books
of generations before mine that it
didn’t even occur to me to keep up
with contemporary fiction.
When I recently realized this
mistake and all that I had been
missing, I ran to the library and
checked out some of what had
been previously vetted by The
Washington Post and The Nation-
al Foundation as “The Best Books
of 2015.”
Thankfully, since I only had a
few days to read them, the books
I chose are spectacular works.
I started with “Girl Waits With
Gun” by Amy Stewart. Based on
real events from 1914, the novel
tells the story of the three Kopp
sisters who live by themselves
on a farm. Their lives, previously
private and quiet, change forever
when a scurrilous factory owner
crashes his car into their buggy.
When the protagonist and leader
of the sisters, Constance Kopp,
demands restitution from the
factory owner, he and his foul
friends attempt to dissuade her
with intimidation and threats of
physical harm. The swaggering
pursuits of male dominance por-
trayed in this book unfortunately
have not changed and are still evi-
dent in our society today. The dif-
ference in “Girl Waits With Gun”
is the entirely badass response of
the Kopp sisters, especially for
their time period.
I started “The Turner House,”
by Angela Flournoy, within min-
utes of finishing “Girl Waits With
Gun.” While it was necessary
for me to meet my deadline and
travel home for Thanksgiving, I
wouldn’t recommend the rapidity
of this turnaround. “The Turner
House” requires and deserves a
clear head to receive its gifts of
wonderfully complex characters
woven into inter-generational
story lines. The portrayal of the
Detroit-based African-American
Turner family begins in their
house on Yarrow Street when
Cha-Cha, the oldest of the 13
Turner children, encounters a
ghost. or “haint,” in his room. We
fast-forward through the years
with them
— the Turners are all
grown up with their own demons
haunting them in every room.
Their history hinges upon the
history of Detroit, with each anec-
dote, based on the events of the
city, illustrating the importance
Flournoy gives to the phrase “the
personal is political.” Families like
the Turners are an underrepre-
sented, but entirely accurate and
necessary portrayal of the post-
nuclear family in contemporary
literature.
One of the books I read that
was published in 2015 was Harp-
er Lee’s “Go Set A Watchman,”
the controversial prequel to
“To Kill A Mockingbird.” I have
already extensively discussed the
novel in this column (long story
short: read it, it’s worth it), but
the book allowed me to see my
prejudice against contemporary
fiction. While “Watchman” was
published in 2015, it had been
declared a classic long before
publication. I now see myself for
what I truly am
— I confess to
being woefully unhip to recent
fiction. I’m only halfway through
two books that I wanted to read
for this column, Adam Johnson’s
“Fortune Smiles” and Sandra
Newman’s “The Country of Ice
Cream Star.” Other books that a
less honest literature columnist
would have claimed to have read
would be “Purity” by Jonathan
Franzen, “H is for Hawk” by
Helen McDonald and “Serving
Pleasure” by Alisha Rai, a self-
published erotic novel that has
garnered a shocking amount
of literary attention. In 2015, I
focused on the classics of the
past when I should have spent
an equal amount of time looking
ahead to the future.
But literary hipness is a transi-
tory state. And fortunately, the
beauty of resolutions is that there’s
always next year. So for 2016, my
resolution is, again, to read a book
a week. The catch is that the book
has to have been published within
the last five years. My predic-
tion is that this resolution will
have everything
— tears and joy
and challenges and rewards, but
mostly just a lot of reading. Check
back in 12 months.
Lerner is finishing a jar of
Nutella. To scold her, e-mail
rebler@umich.edu.
REBECCA
LERNER
TV NOTEBOOK
Friendsgiving
By DANIELLE YACOBSON
Daily Arts Writer
Even though my family immi-
grated from Russia to the United
States over 20 years ago, American
traditions haven’t really stuck. I’ve
missed out on most all-American
viewing experiences, like “Charlie
Brown,” football and the Macy’s
Thanksgiving Day Parade. Instead,
my family spends the day nurs-
ing our food babies on the couch
while marathoning all 10 “Friends”
Thanksgiving episodes. Each year,
we watch Joey’s head get stuck in a
turkey, swoon over 2001 Brad Pitt
and wonder how Monica was able
to lose 100 pounds in just one year.
We laugh at the jokes we already
know the punchlines to and get
teary-eyed every time we hear, “It’s
always been you, Rach.” “Friends”
has filled any void that the all-
American traditions I’ve missed
out on creating and have made “I’ll
Be There For You” the theme song
to my Turkey Day each year.
I don’t know anything about
football. Sue me. However, the
Thanksgiving episode in season
eight taught me that randomly
yelling at the screen is an excellent
strategy to get out of helping with
holiday meal preparations. I’ve also
discovered that football breeds
competition, and nobody does it
better than the Gellers. Though my
family is void of any sibling rivalry,
Ross and Monica’s compares to that
of Michigan and Ohio State. Season
three’s “The One with the Foot-
ball” is infinitely better than any
real football game I could suffer
through, filled with pantsing and
flashing — going so long you could
buy a pretzel.
One thing my family excels at
(along with the rest of America) is
overeating. However, my Thanks-
givings are always European-ified.
My grandma bakes cabbage pie
instead of pumpkin and stuffing
simply doesn’t exist in the Russian
vocabulary. Yet again, “Friends”
comes to the rescue with every
Thanksgiving food delicacy I could
dream of. Monica cooks up three
different kinds of mashed potatoes
in “The One with the Late Thanks-
givings” (season 10) and Joey
demolishes an entire turkey while
killing the fashion game in mater-
nity pants. Even watching Rachel
screw up her trifle (which, accord-
ing to Ross, “tastes like feet”) has
become a Thanksgiving day tradi-
tion.
The best holiday “Friends”
episode, “The One with All the
Thanksgivings”
(season
five),
captures the universal spirit of
the holiday: reminiscing with the
people that have seen you at your
best and worst. In Rachel’s words,
“It’s Thanksgiving, and we should
not want to be together, together.”
“Friends” provides the heavy dose
of nostalgia necessary for family
gathering by reminding everyone of
their most embarrassing moments.
The appearance of fat Monica and
pre-nose job Rachel will inevitably
give you cringe-worthy flashbacks
to high school and maybe even
evoke some long-forgotten secrets
to come out of hiding.
Just as the characters on screen
change from season to season, so
do the wonderful people that I sur-
round myself with on the holiday
dedicated to complex carbohy-
drates and pumpkin spice every-
thing. Just last year, my younger
cousin was covering his eyes at
the kissing scenes. Now, he’s tak-
ing pointers from Joey and asking
girls out on dates of his own. With-
out fail, the love that the “Friends”
gang radiates out of the screen fills
my own living room, making our
yearly marathoning one of my most
coveted traditions. We laugh, we
cry, we try to keep the food coma
from taking over our conscious-
ness. And through it all, we’re
reminded that “Friends”-giving is
truly something to be thankful for.
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