“Bond liked fast cars and he liked driving them,” Ian
Fleming, a man similarly inclined, wrote in 1954’s Live and Let
Die. Now, 60 years on, an unpublished
story by the late author in which James Bond takes on the Russians and gets
involved in a Formula One race, is to form the basis for a new 007 novel by Anthony
Horowitz. Murder on Wheels
was written by Fleming in the 50s, as one of several episode treatments for a
Bond TV series which fell through because the films took over. Many of the plots were turned into short
stories including Octopussy, The Living Daylights and For Your Eyes Only, but a
few outlines were never published, says Fleming’s great-niece Jessie
Grimond. Now, 50 years since the
author’s death, the Fleming estate has shown the material to Horowitz as the
basis for a new novel. Horowitz, the
screenwriter of series including Midsomer Murders and Foyle’s War as
well as the author of the hit teenage spy series Alex Rider and
authorised takes on Sherlock Holmes, is the latest
in a line of writers to don the mantle of Fleming with the estate’s
blessing. Predecessors include Sebastian
Faulks, Jeffery Deaver and William Boyd, whose novels have variously seen Bond
take on a heroin influx into Britain in the 60s, leap through time to the
present day, and try to “single-handedly stop a civil war” in a small west
African nation. Horowitz, however, is
the first writer to have been given unpublished material to work with. Alison Flood
November 24, 2014 Gabriel
García Márquez, who died in April at 87, was a strong critic of
American imperialism who was banned from entry to the United States for
decades, even after “One Hundred Years of Solitude” vaulted him to
international celebrity and, in 1982, the Nobel
Prize in
Literature. But now García Márquez, who
was born in Colombia and
lived much of his adult life in Mexico City, has “gone to Texas,” as they
say. The Harry Ransom Center at the University
of Texas in
Austin will announce on Monday that it has acquired García Márquez’s archive,
which contains manuscripts, notebooks, photo albums, correspondence and
personal artifacts, including two Smith Corona typewriters and five Apple
computers. At the Ransom Center, one of
the nation’s leading literary archives — and the only one “in the country’s
borderlands with Latin America,” noted Steve Enniss, its director — García
Márquez’s literary remains will be preserved alongside those of James Joyce,
Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Jorge Luis Borges and other global
figures. The archive, purchased from his
family, includes material relating to all of García Márquez’s important books,
from the landmark “One Hundred Years of Solitude” — represented by the finished
typescript sent to his publisher, bearing a hand-lettered title page and only a
few corrections — to “We’ll See Each Other in August,” his final, unfinished
novel, which exists in as many as 10 versions.
Jennifer Schussler
Two museums,
two concerts, fine restaurants and good company made for an excellent
Cincinnati mini-vacation November 27-30, 2014.
MUSEUMS
Taft Museum of Art, 316 Pike Street Robert S. Duncanson painted the murals that adorn the walls at
316 Pike Street, which at that time belonged to Nicholas Longworth. I enjoyed their annual display (will continue through January 4, 2015) of antique
ornaments, decorations, and toys--especially the goose feather trees. http://www.taftmuseum.org/?page_id=196 The Baum-Longworth-Sinton-Taft House, a National
Historic Landmark built about 1820 for Martin Baum, is the oldest domestic
wooden structure in situ locally and is considered one of the finest examples
of Federal architecture in the Palladian style in the country. http://www.taftmuseum.org/?page_id=43
Contemporary Arts Center, 44 East 6th Street
http://contemporaryartscenter.org/ My favorite work at CAC was a black and white
film titled Staging Silence (2) by Hans Op de Beeck. Visual artist Hans Op de Beeck lives and works
in Brussels, where he has developed his career through international
exhibitions over the past fifteen years. His work consists of sculptures,
installations, video work, photography, animated films, drawings, paintings and
writing (short stories). The scale can
vary from the size of a small watercolour to a large, three-dimensional
installation of 300m2. Op de Beeck
shows the viewer non-existent, but identifiable places, moments and characters,
and key themes are the disappearance of distances, the disembodiment of the
individual and the abstraction of time. Hans Op de Beeck sometimes calls his works
"proposals"; they are irrefutably fictional, constructed and staged,
leaving it up to the viewer whether to take the work seriously, as a sort of
parallel reality, or immediately to put it into perspective, as no more than a
visual construct. http://contemporaryartscenter.org/artists/hans-op-de-beeck See images of Staging Silence 2 at http://www.mocacleveland.org/exhibitions/hans-op-de-beeck-staging-silence-2
and 20:49 video at https://vimeo.com/channels/824478
CONCERTS
Music Hall 1241 Elm Street in the
Over-the-Rhine neighborhood
The Music
Hall, home for the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Cincinnati Opera, May
Festival Chorus, and the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, has been recognized as a
National Historic Landmark since 1975. The main hall, Springer Auditorium
has 3,516 seats. There is also a Music
Hall Ballroom, Corbett Tower with seating up to 300, and a critics club. Read more and see pictures at http://www.localview.co/cincinnati-oh/posts/10-things-you-might-not-know-about-the-cincinnati-music-hall#.VHt5vzHF98E On November 28, 2014 we heard the Cincinnati
Symphony with conductor Louis Langrée and pianist Alexander Gavrylyuk perform Tchaikovsky's
Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat Minor, Op. 23.
The pianist played as an encore a concert transcription of the wedding
march from Mendelssohn's Midsummer Night's Dream. The orchestra completed the concert with a
performance of Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5 in E Minor, Op. 64. Read a review by Janelle Gelfand of the
"jaw-dropping" concert at http://www.cincinnati.com/story/entertainment/2014/11/29/review-tchaikovsky-concert-jaw-dropping/19685435/
Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, 962 Mount Adams Circle Tenderly: The Rosemary Clooney Musical The Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, located in
Eden Park, was
founded in 1959 by college student Gerald Covell and was one of the first
regional theatres in the United States. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cincinnati_Playhouse_in_the_Park On November 29, 2014 we saw Tenderly:
The Rosemary Clooney Musical featuring two actor-singers, and three
instrumentalists. Tenderly is the
brainchild of Cincinnati playwright/composers Janet Yates Vogt and Mark
Friedman and wil run through January 4, 2015.
Susan Haefner plays Rosemary Clooney, and Michael Marotta, plays a dozen or so characters, including
Clooney’s psychiatrist, Bing Crosby,
José Ferrer, and Clooney’s mother.
Musicians playing were Scot Woolley on piano, Nick Greenberg on bass,
and Adam Wheeler on drums.
Welcomers Community Volunteer Network of Cincinnati
USA/ Northern Kentucky is a network
designed to connect area residents, who enjoy volunteering and welcoming
visitors, with local attractions and arts, cultural and special events. The Welcomers is a legacy project of the 2012
World Choir Games extending the pride and excitement felt by thousands of
volunteers who welcomed international visitors as greeters, guides,
translators, and social media contributors, and provided visitors with world
class hospitality. http://www.cincyusa.com/welcomers/about/ The Welcomers network numbers about 4000, and
is a good example for cities to help large numbers of incoming guests. Cincinnati's next big project will be to
welcome people to the All-Star Game in 2015.
http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com Issue 1225
December 3, 2014 On this date in 1596,
Nicola Amati, Italian violin maker, was
born. On this date in 1755, Gilbert Stuart, American painter, was born.
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