Word: angele
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Otto Klemperer's version, with the Philharmonia and New Philharmonia orchestras (Angel; 2 LPs), has superb soloists, Mezzo-Soprano Christa Ludwig and Tenor Fritz Wunderlich, whose promise was cut short by his accidental death last summer at 35. The orchestra sounds wonderfully clear and portentous, as though this were the last music to be played on the day of doom. Although Klemperer's playing time is actually shorter than Bernstein's, Angel chose to record the piece on three LP sides, filling the fourth with five Mahler songs...
...award at Cannes in 1966), decided to finance the whole Ring rather than one of its parts. "If you're going to beat the drum," said Hall, "hit it hard enough for people to hear you." Aside from the avalanche of publicity triggered by the announcement, angel Eastern's generosity rates a special credit line in Met programs...
...surely one of the world's most extraordinary bestsellers. Written in 1933 by a Spanish priest named Jose-maria Escrivá, it consists of 999 aphorisms (sample: "Be firm! Be strong! Be a man! And then-be an angel!") that come so close to Dale Carnegie's exhortations that it might well be called How to Win Friends and Influence God. Yet The Way has sold more than 2,000,000 copies in 15 languages, including Tagalog and Swahili, and is now being translated into 15 other tongues. It is the only written credo of a rapidly expanding...
...wandering Jew, but Agnon heroes have a disconcerting universality. "A difficult thing to grasp," says Reb Yudel, pondering war. "What satisfaction do the kings derive in sending folk of this countryside to another land and folk of another land to this countryside? What difference does it make to the Angel of Death whether he has to come here or go there...
...redheaded beauty that they became Hollywood's most celebrated pair in the late 1930s and '40s, singing their way through scores of love duets (Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life, Indian Love Call, Will You Remember) and eight hit musicals from Naughty Marietta to I Married an Angel, films that won them such everlasting fans that Eddy could count on a packed house of appreciative middle-aged folk whenever he appeared on the nightclub circuit; of a stroke suffered in the middle of a performance; in Miami Beach...