earlier.Istar, first performed in 1897, is a complex set of variations that ends rather than starting with the basic theme – reflecting an ancient Assyrian story in which a goddess must leave an article of clothing at each of seven doors to the underworld, eventually entering her destination naked.The form of the work is clever, and its progress from complexity to simplicity reflects its source, but the whole has a somewhat detached feel to it despite its structural skill.As for Choral varié (1903), it makes full use of the flowing expressivity of the saxophone in a work that is at times Romantic, at times steeped in Impressionism – and that dies away into quiet moodiness.Gamba directs all the music with a sure hand and a fine feeling forThe Helen Nestor photographic collection at the Oakland Museum of California in Oakland, California contains more than 2,000
prints and 20,000 negatives, is the life's work of an important documentary photographer who specialized in recording the
political and social changes of the 1960s and beyond in California. The 39 photographs presented here are a selection from
her negatives taken during the Free Speech Movement in the Fall of 1964.

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