Out of the summer White House came the news: John F. Kennedy Jr.'s hair had been trimmed to lean and tidy normality, and was now parted on the left side, just like Dad's.
At his death in 1911, Gustave Mahler's Tenth Symphony was at best only seven-or eight-tenths finished; most scholars feared that the work was too personal and too fragmentary ever to be completed by another hand. But undaunted British Musicologist Deryck Cooke went ahead, fused and orchestrated the score. Without even listening to it, the composer's widow Alma emotionally vetoed publication in...
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