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Leonardo Reviews 73 were gently pushed in. The Vice Chancellor climbed the stage. Banco Sudameris was thanked and “a public and high-quality university” was cheered. With a Debussy-like performance of the Second Nocturne, Cohen rose to the rarefied heights of Dinu Lipatti’s historic Nocturne in D-Flat interpretation . Fantaisie-impromptu, the Third Étude Op. 10, the First and Twelfth Études Op. 25, and the First and Second Scherzi followed. Having made his way through terminal coughing , wristwatch beeps and mobilephone calls in the way of a man who accepts all things, and accepts them in the spirit of cool bravery, Cohen was awarded a standing ovation. He retorted with a finely crafted, superbly phrased and unbelievably fresh Minute Waltz. At half past twelve, Scriabin’s Étude Pathétique drew the evening to a close. Jose Miguel Wisnik summarizes the program of the modernist cycle of musical nationalism in Brazil: To synthesize and to stabilize a musical expression of popular base, as a means to conquer a language that reconciles the country in the horizontality of its territory and the verticality of its classes (raising the rustic culture to the universalized scope of bourgeois culture, and giving the bourgeois musical production a social base that it lacks [1]. The middle classes like Chopin. The violence that, for centuries, the owner perpetrated against the slave was democratized by decades of military dictatorship and has been sanctioned by the democratic regime [2]. In Brazilian politics today, it is not the rustic landowner from Bahia that rises to the universalized scope of bourgeois culture, but the cosmopolitan intellectual from São Paulo that sinks to the scope of nationalized bourgeois brutality. Like the famous fur coat with which the Finance Minister Cardoso de Mello sought to impress the Prince and Princess of Wales at a Rio gala evening, the fabric of Brazilian society is moth-eaten beyond repair. Slaughtered or ostracized, the Indians alone remain unsullied. They enshrine the nationhood that might have been. Ena mokocê-cê-maká. References 1. Jose Miguel Wisnik, quoted by Gerard Béhague in Heitor Villa-Lobos: The Search for Brazil’s Musical Soul (1994). 2. Joseph A. Page, The Brazilians (Perseus Press, 1995). MATERIALS RECEIVED Multimedia Products Borderland Produced by Plokker. Plokker, France. CDROM . 1999. Conversations with Angels Produced by Andy Best and Merja Puustinen. VRML CD-ROM plus picture book. MEET Factory, Helsinki, Finland. 1999. 25 Euros. DOC(K)S “La Trilogie des Medias”: Tome 2: Chantier “Son.” Journal (in French) plus 2 audio CDs, 1998. 300 FF. Form Function in Architecture R. Thomas Hille. Univ. of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A., 1999. 2-volume CDROM . ISEATERROR98 Department of Fine Arts, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, U.K., 1998. CD-ROM for Macintosh. Masterworks for Learning: A College Collection Catalogue Allen Memorial Art Museum. Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH, U.S.A. 1998. CDROM . Mediamatic Vol. 9, No. 1, Spring 1998. Journal plus CDROM . Mediamatic Volume 9, No. 2/3, 1998. Context Issue. CD-ROM for Mac/Windows. Musicworks No. 72. Fall 1998. CD plus magazine. Shock in the Ear Produced by Norie Neumark. Univ. of Technology, Sydney, Australia, 1998. CDROM for Macintosh. Audio Compact Discs 1970–1973 Mother Mallard’s Portable Masterpiece Co. Cuneiform Records, Silver Springs, MD, U.S.A., 1999. The Alpha Wave Variations Paisley Babylon. Zombie Records, San Antonio, TX, U.S.A., 1998. Divine Doorways Andrea Goodman and Gerry Hemingway. Ruby Throated Music, Boothbay, ME, U.S.A., 1998. The Fence Jon Rose. ReR/Recommended Records, Surrey, U.K., 1998. Hidden Reflections: Chamber Works Lior Navok. NLP, Boston, MA, U.S.A., 1998. Horde Mnemonists. ReR/Recommended, Surrey, U.K., 1999. Hyperpiano Denman Maroney. Mon$ey Music, Monsey, NY, U.S.A., 1998. Inside Barry Truax. Cambridge Street Records, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.,1996. Live from California Dos Hermanos. Grateful Dead Records, CA, U.S.A., 1998. Live in Tokyo Cassiber. ReR/Recommended Records, Surrey, U.K., 1998. Out beyond Ideas Mandir. Satsang Music, Missoula, MT, U.S.A., 1998. Portals of Distortion: Music for Saxophones , Computers, and Stones Matthew Burtner. Innova, St. Paul, MN, U.S.A., 1999. $14.97. Pragma Tim Hodgkinson. ReR/Recommended Records...