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	Leon Klinghoffer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Leon Klinghoffer (September 24, 1916 – October 8, 1985) was a retired appliance manufacturer from New York who was disabled (from a stroke) and used a wheelchair for mobility.
		After his death, his daughters established the Leon and Marilyn Klinghoffer Memorial Foundation with the Anti-Defamation League; the foundation combats terrorism through educational, political and legal means.
		The foundation is funded by undisclosed settlement paid by the PLO to the Klinghoffers to settle a lawsuit seeking damages for the PLO's role in the hijacking.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Leon_Klinghoffer (536 words)

	The Death of Klinghoffer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Death of Klinghoffer is an opera by the contemporary American composer John Adams to an English libretto by the poet Alice Goodman.
		The Death of Klinghoffer is written in a style similar to the minimalist music made popular by composers such as Philip Glass and Steve Reich.
		Klinghoffer himself is murdered point-blank on stage, and his wife's horror upon finding out about his murder is conveyed viscerally to the audience as a final impression.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Death_of_Klinghoffer (573 words)

	Klinghoffer Dialogue Project
		The Klinghoffer Dialogue Project has focused on The Death of Klinghoffer, a moving and controversial opera by John Adams with libretto by Alice Goodman.
		The Klinghoffer Dialogue Project consisted of three pre-production dialogue sessions focusing on the words, the staging and the music of the opera The Death of Klinghoffer.
		Klinghoffer opens with a stunning prelude during which two choruses, one representing exiled Palestinians, the other, exiled Jews, establish the work’s daring complexities.
	www.brooklynphilharmonic.org /2003_2004/KlinghofferDP.htm (328 words)

	The Death of Klinghoffer: Scottish Opera
		Klinghoffer himself was the sole fatality during the kidnapping by Palestinian terrorists of the cruise ship Achille Lauro.
		Thus Klinghoffer is undeniably a real person rather than a stylised painting surrounded by candles in a wayside shrine, and the same is true of his wife.
		Furthermore, Klinghoffer is shown as the only person to stand up verbally to the kidnappers without prompting (the captain, who has a larger role, does so out of necessity), a form of heroism surely more in tune with the modern world than a pious death.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /p.w.stephenson/reviews/klinghoffer.html (1748 words)

	James Wierzbicki / John Adams
		Klinghoffer was one of some 200 vacationers still aboard the Achille Lauro when the Mediterranean cruise ship was comandeered, in October of 1985, by five gunmen who claimed to represent the Palestine Liberation Organization.
		"The Death of Klinghoffer" was accused of pro-Israeli sentiment when it was premiered in Brussels in the spring of last year, and protests from the Arab community continued seven months later during a run at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
		The team that created "The Death of Klinghoffer" was also responsible, five years ago, for "Nixon in China." Like the Achille Lauro affair, former President Richard Nixon's visit with Mao Tse-tung in Beijing in 1972 at first struck the opera world as something too contemporary - and too political - for theatrical treatment.
	pages.sbcglobal.net /jameswierzbicki/adams.htm (2456 words)

	John Adams \| List of Works
		The models for The Death of Klinghoffer, on the other hand, were the Bach Passions: grave, symbolic, narrative poems, supported by large choral pillars.
		In a scene for Leon Klinghoffer and the terrorist whom all the hostages dubbed "Rambo" the desperation of a conflict that refuses to be healed is summed up in a blistering exchange of accusations, vicious cliché, and degradation.
		When The Death of Klinghoffer played six performances at the San Francisco Opera in the fall of 1992, it was the second most attended opera of their season, and each performance was picketed by a Jewish information group who also wrote letters of condemnation to the local press.
	www.earbox.com /W-klinghoffer.html (601 words)

	Decca Music Group - New Release
		Woolcock has completely reimagined The Death of Klinghoffer in a way that stays true to the spirit of the piece but that takes it in myriad directions unimaginable on stage...
		The Death of Klinghoffer DVD contains special features which include "Filming ‘The Death of Klinghoffer" (47 minutes) and a "Directors Commentary" (the first opera DVD to include this feature!) "Filming ‘The Death of Klinghoffer" gives an in depth look into the conception of this film including exclusive interview footage with John Adams and Penny Woolcock.
		The Death of Klinghoffer is now available for the first time on DVD, benefiting from the presence of English, French, German, Italian and Spanish subtitles, plus the presentation of the opera in 5.1 surround!
	www.deccaclassics.com /music/dvd/074189.html (585 words)

	Opera film caught up in Mideast conflict / 'Klinghoffer' adaptation divides people
		Since 1991, when "The Death of Klinghoffer" made its U.S. premiere, John Adams' opera has generated controversy and critical acclaim, so it's not surprising that a film version is sparking new debate about a work that examines the relationship between Israelis and Palestinians.
		Like the opera, the movie "The Death of Klinghoffer" gives operatic voice to the Palestinians who hijacked the Achille Lauro, letting them sing about their philosophies and their anger at being displaced in 1948, after Israel was created.
		When "The Death of Klinghoffer" was first performed, some people said the opera was biased in favor of Zionism, though the most vocal criticism has come from those who say it sides with the Palestinian terrorists.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/05/17/DD188646.DTL&type=printable (617 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - 'The Death of Klinghoffer' - the Opera
		An opera was written, based on the incident and entitled The Death of Klinghoffer (music by John Adams, text or libretto by Alice Goodman).
		Similarly, The Death of Klinghoffer uses the hijacking incident as a backdrop to the personal memories, reflections and desires of the various individuals caught up in it.
		While The Death of Klinghoffer is based on historical events it does not try to treat them in a straightforward story-telling manner, so what occurs on stage is not always what we expect.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/collective/A757398 (2103 words)

	Klinghoffer Dialogue Project
		The hijacking of the Achille Lauro and the killing of Leon Klinghoffer are considered the first time the Middle East conflict led to the death of an American citizen—and a New Yorker.
		Klinghoffer’s death is symbolically presented to the audience; up until now only the music has implied that he was murdered.
		Klinghoffer to his cabin where he breaks the news of her husband’s death.
	www.brooklynphilharmonic.org /2003_2004/KlinghofferDPguide.htm (4308 words)

	Amazon.ca: Death of Klinghoffer: Music: John Adams,Janice Felty,Stephanie Friedman,Thomas Hampson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Even-handed, that is, to both the Palestinian and Israeli positions in their long-standing conflict, despite the focal event of the hijacking being the death of American Jewish tourist Leon Klinghoffer.
		In The Death of Klinghoffer (1991), John Adams turns his cascading minimalism to the tragedy of the Achille Lauro.
		The Death Of Klinghoffer by John Adams is to my mind one of the great musical and dramatic works of the last 25 years.
	www.amazon.ca /Death-Klinghoffer-John-Adams/dp/B000005J1B (1181 words)

	JA Stage Works: The Death of Klinghoffer
		A setting for baritone and chamber orchestra of Walt Whitman's recollections of nursing injured Civil War soldiers, The Wound-Dresser mines the vein of extraordinary eloquence that emerged in the last act of Nixon; this mood of quiet acceptance is as "sweet and sad" as Whitman's text.
		Pervasively dark and dissonant, surprisingly contrapuntal, and capable of shattering emo-tional impact, Klinghoffer's florid chromaticism is far removed from the burbling post-minimalist repetition of Nixon in China.
		Klinghoffer, which opened at the height of the 1991 Gulf War, took an immense personal toll on Adams, and for several years he avoided the opera world altogether.
	www.earbox.com /tech-guide/general/info-en.htm (1530 words)

	The Edinburgh festival 2005 -- EIF Review
		It is a brave move for the EIF to invest a large part of their opera budget in the U.K. premiere, with Scottish Opera, of John Adams' 1991 opera The Death of Klinghoffer.
		He can quickly conjure an atmosphere through music, or tellingly represent offstage events: thus Klinghoffer's death is not shown but is portrayed by a boiling orchestral climax in the middle of an otherwise placid solo by his unknowing wife.
		Klinghoffer himself (Jonathan Summers) has not sung until Act II; he represents the ordinary man driven to confront the alien and misguided terrorists, an action which singles him out as a target.
	www.edinburghguide.com /festival/2005/eif/review.shtml?05_08_23_death_of_klinghoffer (784 words)

	Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Through a series of dialogues set around a performance of the opera The Death of Klinghoffer, the two organizations sought to engage the people of Brooklyn in dialogue on the effects of tensions between Israelis and Palestinians on their community.
		The Death of Klinghoffer, a fully staged opera by John Adams and Alice Goodman, reflects on the 1985 commandeering of the Italian cruise liner the Achille Lauro by Palestinian hijackers, and the murder of a wheelchair-bound American Jew.
		The Klinghoffer Dialogue Project aimed to foster dialogue on issues of identity, nationalism, and the roots of violence within the context of the conflict in Israel and Palestine—as well as their impact on people in Brooklyn—using the opera as a platform for discussion.
	www.artsusa.org /animatingdemocracy/labs/lab_092.asp (846 words)

	The Death of Klinghoffer, Festival Theatre, Edinburgh \| \| Guardian Unlimited Arts
		Scottish Opera's production of The Death of Klinghoffer at last goes boldly where no opera company in these islands has dared before (and one of them, Glyndebourne, shared in the original commission).
		There have been a couple of concert performances here since the premiere in Brussels in 1991, as well as a highly successful TV film for Channel 4, but the subject matter of Alice Goodman's libretto remains as politically charged now as it was when the opera was first seen.
		The singers work hard, and some of them are outstanding; as Leon Klinghoffer, Jonathan Summers conjures a compelling portrait out of what musically is relatively little, and Catherine Wyn-Rogers as his wife, Marilyn, sings her final aria of rage turning to despair with impressive intensity.
	arts.guardian.co.uk /reviews/story/0,11712,1555259,00.html (473 words)

	classical music - andante - grief and rage and rich orchestral color: the death of klinghoffer at the edinburgh festival
		The opening choruses for the exiled Palestinians and exiled Jews — an intoxicating blend of the devotional and the secular — are without parallel in contemporary art music, blossoming into violent, sensual, scarlet declamations from a cool, lyrical wash of orchestral grays and blues.
		Sneering at grief-tourism and consumer-culture by advertising memorial t-shirts is all too easy, and Neilson's disdainful home-movie close-ups of wasted food at a Klinghoffer family celebration — implicitly criticising their decadence — were, to my mind, misplaced in the "Aria of the Falling Body".
		Against the spare geometrics of Miriam Buether's abstracted deck and quayside, the movements of the cast are near faultless, with Kamel Boutros reprising his compellingly nuanced portrait of Mamoud, Darren Abrahams a twitchy Molqi, and D'Arcy Bleiker a brutish Rambo.
	www.andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=25898 (932 words)

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		In 1991, when George Bush, Sr.’s Gulf War was a current event, composer John Adams and poet Alice Goodman’s opera “The Death of Klinghoffer,” in which choruses of exiled Palestinians and Jews help provide some context for the action, made the rounds (Brooklyn, California, Belgium, England and France).
		The monologue of an Austrian passenger, wittily delivered in the sprechtstimme (song speech) style of Berg and Schoenberg, and a propulsive chorus at the end alone, varied the glacial pace of the act’s reflections on the hijacking and on Nature.
		Kudos to the nine soloists--Stephen Powell and Nancy Maultsby as the Klinghoffers; Phyllis Pancella and Kirsten Blase as other passengers; James Maddalena returning to the role of the Captain, which he created; Todd Wilander, Nmon Ford, Eric Owens and Christina Wilcox as the terrorists—for their high-level performances.
	www.theatrescene.net /ts\articles.nsf/0/1F3BCF701A488D5785256DF800443798?OpenDocument (516 words)

	All About Jewish Theatre - The Death of Klinghoffer first British staging at Edinburgh International Festival
		The Death of Klinghoffer is based on the true story of the hijacking by terrorists of a cruise ship, the Achille Lauro, in 1985 and the subsequent murder of one of the passengers.
		The Death of Klinghoffer is a rich and complex work which explores the divisions in the Middle East with an objective and even-handed approach to attempt an understanding of the human motivations behind them.
		Leon Klinghoffer, an American Jew, is confined to a wheelchair and is unable to be lifted onto the platform.
	www.jewish-theatre.com /visitor/article_display.aspx?articleID=1284 (1367 words)

	NewMusicBox
		Now Klinghoffer has been reborn, in a version which, beyond all previous stagings—and certainly beyond all carefully unstaged concert renditions—creates the best possible context for the work's greatness.
		The murder of the wheelchair- ridden Leon Klinghoffer actually takes place center stage—not offstage, as in Sellars—and then his final tragic invocation, "May the Lord God and His creation," is sung by his murdered body as it slowly descends through clear Mediterranean waters.
		At the end there is nearly an hour's worth of auxiliary material, every word of it relevant to the matter at hand with filmmaker and composer especially inflamed by the splendor of the work they have created.
	www.newmusicbox.org /article.nmbx?id=4717 (609 words)

	sfbg.com \| A and E
		FEW ART FORMS are more conservative in patronage than grand opera, so the protests raised around the 1991 premiere of composer John Adams and librettist Alice Goodman's Death of Klinghoffer weren't unexpected, if still impressive in their ferocity.
		They forced the remaining tourists and crew into the main dining room, ordering the captain to steer toward Syria and to inform authorities of their demands – namely, that 50 Palestinian dissidents be released from Israeli prisons.
		But during an ever worsening Israel-Palestinian conflict, her Death of Klinghoffer does play vividly on a large scale one might not have thought opera capable of: that of still-unfolding global history.
	www.sfbg.com /38/05/art_film_achilles.html (727 words)

	A Terse and Realistic 'Klinghoffer'
		The opera's core episode — the 1985 killing by Palestinian terrorists of a disabled Jewish passenger on a cruise ship — was seen as tasteless, and its sympathetic treatment of the Palestinians seemed to heap insult on fatal injury.
		Yet if "Klinghoffer" is to succeed, somehow the text must be made to stand on a plane closer to that of Adams's music, which itself offers much to admire.
		Hannu Niemela sang with forthright eloquence as Klinghoffer, and Jaakko Kortekangas was affecting as the well-meaning Captain.
	www.iht.com /articles/2001/02/14/loomis.t.php (669 words)

	felixsalmon.com: — The Death of Klinghoffer at BAM
		felixsalmon.com: — The Death of Klinghoffer at BAM
		Spano's last engagement with the Brooklyn Philharmonic was conducting three performances of The Death of Klinghoffer at BAM, the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
		The Death of Klinghoffer, however, was a co-production with BAM.
	www.felixsalmon.com /000221.html (1957 words)

	classical music - andante - machine guns in the audience: controversy breaks out over edinburgh festival staging of ...
		Critics of the production claim that in the present climate, and given the controversial theme of the work, it is "morally irresponsible" to use theatrical shock tactics such as these.
		The Death of Klinghoffer tells the story of the 1985 hijacking of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro by Palestinian terrorists who murdered retired, wheelchair-bound Leon Klinghoffer.
		Death of Klinghoffer has a particular resonance in the current political situation and it seems entirely appropriate to portray it as graphically as possible.
	www.andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=25826 (1150 words)

	Landmark performance: The Death of Klinghoffer \| THE NEW ZEALAND OPERA SOCIETY
		I had expected, right from its announcement last November, that the performance at the Auckland Festival of the Death of Klinghoffer would be the most memorable and important event both in the festival and in the 2005 opera calendar in New Zealand.
		The unsympathetic role of Klinghoffer was splendidly sung by David Griffiths.
		Marilyn Klinghoffer was sung by Anne Lamont-Low, suffering from a throat infection.
	www.opera.net.nz /node/79 (1424 words)

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