Word: angeles
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Treasury-that offer top quality but somewhat older recordings for about $2.50 a record. Capitol has more exciting news. It has succeeded in signing a contract for all Soviet artists and orchestras, and has rushed its technicians to Russia lest any foreign sounds creep in. The label is Melodiya-Angel, and the first issues are excellent...
STRAVINSKY: L'HISTOIRE DU SOLDAT and PROKOFIEV: QUINTET, OPUS 39 (Melodiya-Angel). Written at the end of World War I, Histoire is a clever little musical outrage featuring a demented tango, ragtime gone wrong, a satanic mockery of a Bach chorale, and countless other musical japes in the story of a soldier who sells his soul to the Devil, wins it back and finally loses it again. The Prokofiev is also dramatic, originally composed for a ballet about a circus. The Moscow Chamber Ensemble, led by Gennedy Rozhdestvensky, has just the right touch for both: cool, brusque, almost offhandish...
After Wolfe's death, relatives found that his copy of an anthology co-edited by Munn had the passage took homeward, angel," heavily underscored. Wolfe used the phrase as the title of his chief novel...
...DROP OF ANOTHER HAT (Angel). British Satirists Michael Flanders and Donald Swann have recently returned to Broadway with a new collection of dotty ditties about the gas man (who "cometh") and De Gaulle ("all gall"). This LP was recorded in London but is essentially the same as the U.S. show, and besides-it's the only recording that will be released...
...associations have given her medals or awards for her charitable work. She has donated generously to the Salvation Army, the Red Cross and many political candidates of both parties, as well as more than $1,000,000 to Washington's National Symphony. She is the prime angel of two colleges (Washington's Mount Vernon Junior College, her alma mater, and C.W. Post College, which occupies one of her former estates in Greenvale, N.Y.). The fraternity boys at C. W. Post, whom she treats to fun-filled weekends at the Shoreham Hotel in Washington, call her "Mumsy...