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OPERA REVIEW
President calls for calm as former Neighborhood Watch leader walks free By Carol D. Leonnig and Jenna Johnson The Washington Post
Lawrence Brownlee as Uberto and Joyce DiDonato as Elena in Gioachino Rossini’s La donna del lago at the Santa Fe Opera. KEN HOWARD/THE SANTA FE OPERA
Joyce DiDonato dazzles in ‘La donna del lago’
George Zimmerman’s acquittal Saturday night on all charges in the killing of a black teenager, Trayvon Martin, sparked deep emotional reactions across the country Sunday, resurrecting an intense national debate about the role of race and racism in American life.
President Barack Obama declared Martin’s killing an American tragedy but called for calm. From church pews to street corners to the sprawling social-media universe, Americans expressed outrage, disgust and, in some cases, relief at the verdict. Rallies and vigils were held in Washington, San Francisco, Chicago, New York and Los Angeles as well as in Sanford, Fla., where the killing and the trial took place. Others were scheduled in Boston, Detroit and Baltimore. “I grew up in Georgia, and what hap-
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Yensenia Vega holds up a sign during a vigil for Trayvon Martin at the Torch of Friendship monument on Sunday in Miami, Fla. Protests that erupted over the verdict were largely peaceful. JAVIER GALEANO THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
A COLORFUL TESTIMONY
By James M. Keller The New Mexican
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ioachino Rossini’s La donna del lago, a twoact opera based on Sir Walter Scott’s poetical epic The Lady of the Lake, enjoyed widespread popularity for several decades following its premiere in 1819, but after that the world tucked it in for a century-long nap. Since its modern revival in 1958, it has been presented by various companies, and in the past few years a small handful of productions have starred American mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato in the demanding title role of Elena, the part she upholds with impressive aplomb in the production that opened Saturday night at Santa Fe Opera. The piece requires singers skilled in the strenuous demands of bel canto vocal style, artists who can negotiate rapid figuration by the furlong, passing seamlessly from their highest notes to their lowest and vice-versa (dauntingly difficult), apportioning the countless tiny notes of these roulades to clarify an overarching phrase. DiDonato did not sing a measure all evening that failed to proclaim mastery of this style. From the very opening notes of her entrance aria, “O, mattutini albori!” she rendered everything with complete security. (The melody of this aria returns repeatedly in the course of the opera; listeners will have no trouble remembering it, as it oddly prefigures the tune chimed in a later era by Mister Softee ice-cream trucks.) Her entrance was simple but visually striking. The set having been cleared of a motley bunch of peasants, she strolls down from the back of the stage across a hardscrabble expanse of Scottish countryside that supports only a few sprigs of heather. The open-air stage-back allowed a passing breeze to tousle her tresses, and her unaffected bearing clarified the production’s naturalistic aspirations.
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Heavy downpour doesn’t dampen market’s success
ABOVE: Dan Bortz of Oakland, Calif., paints a mural on the back of the Dominguez Carpet One Building recently. Bortz and a few other artists are working on the mural from noon to sunset every day until it’s finished. The mural is visible from the Rail Runner Express and from Pen Road. RIGHT: Nick Man of Santa Fe adds his touch to the mural. PHOTOS BY LUIS SÁNCHEZ SATURNO THE NEW MEXICAN
International Folk Art Market wraps up with high-volume sales, visitors By Adele Oliveira
The New Mexican
Rain poured on attendees of the 10th annual International Folk Art Market during a Sunday afternoon thunderstorm. Museum Hill had been rain-free until close to the end of the market’s last day. “The downpour was fantastic and refreshing,” said Shawn McQueen-Ruggerio, the Folk Art Market’s executive director. “It rained pretty hard and everybody was happy at the end.” More than 7,000 people attended the market on Saturday, and sales for that day were $1,365,705 — up more than 20 percent from 2012 and the best sales day in the market’s history. Eight hundred children participated in the market’s passport program, during which kids collect stickers for passport-like booklets when they visit the booths of artists from different countries. It was jeweler Karim Oukid Ouksel of Algeria’s third time participating in the Folk Art Market. Ouksel makes sterling silver jewelry with enamel or inlaid stones. “This year was better than the last,” Ouksel said of sales. “It’s always a very nice experience for me, meeting good people, and the good hospitality.” Aboubakar Fofana of Mali, who makes textiles, clothing and home accessories dyed with indigo or mud, called his fourth year at the market “the best yet.
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Cities are much more than people: They’re social reactors
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are the reasons so many ig cities are fascinating and mysterious people want to live in citplaces: In them we ies? Can we make them experience so much about better places to live? Can the world, so fast. There is cities help us meet the a sense of speed, novelty, challenges of sustainabilexhilaration and some ity? My colleagues and I confusion that vastly tranat the Santa Fe Institute scends what each individhave been trying to solve Luís ual knows. This marvelous the puzzle of how cities Bettencourt power of cities, something function and grow with Science in a I sensed intuitively growthe hope that we can Complex World begin to answer some of ing up in Lisbon, Portugal, these questions. later became a subject of my scientific research, as Like Santa Fe, my well as a lifelong passion. native city is an old place where many cultures connect, sometimes This is an important time in our with tension, but always with rich planet’s history. Cities are growing, and interesting results. Lisbon grew very quickly. Today more than half very fast due to immigration when of the earth’s people live in cities. By 2050, some say, 80 percent of us will be urban dwellers. What Please see sCIeNCe, Page A-4
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