Word: angeles
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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OLIVIER MESSIAEN: CHRONOCHROMIE FOR ORCHESTRA (Angel). One of France's leading composers, declaring that "nature is the supreme resource," has based a weird, episodic, 22-minute piece on the sounds of wind and water and the songs of birds (the xylophone plays the nuthatch, the glockenspiel the wren). At one point the instrumental stand-ins for 18 birds, from nightingale to chiffchaff, perform a complex medley. Yet Chronochromie is no mere imitation of nature, and in fact stands at the opposite pole-being a highly cerebral exercise concerned, as its title indicates, with the "color of time." Played...
Shortly after sunset one evening, a Cubana Airlines Ilyushin-18 took off from Santiago, Cuba's second largest city, bound for Havana with 91 passengers. Among the crew was Flight Engineer Angel Betancourt Cueto, who was prepared to risk his life to escape Cuba. Seventy miles west of Havana. Betancourt made his move. Locking the door that separates the flight deck from the passengers, he suddenly slugged the guard who stood just behind the pilot and copilot and ordered Captain Fernando Alvarez Perez to set a course for Miami. "From this moment," as a government communiqué later described...
...sweat and blood and tears," and "Our toll is written in history's scroll / In bright, bright lines of red.") to the quasilyrical ("Lay the green sod oe'r me"), Sadler's words are united by the common theme of self-congratulation. Sometimes they approach the sickness of Teen Angel as in Trooper's Lament where, "As he fell through the night, / His 'chute all in flames, / A smile on his lips, / He cried out his girl's name," but generally these songs are the dull and repetitious celebration of America's Best, who are apparently as devoid of personality...
...inflation and, most important of all, create a government completely free of military influence. He rolled up more votes in Guatemala City than his two opponents combined-Colonel Juan de Dios Aguilar de León, 54, the government-backed candidate of the Democratic Institutional Party, and Colonel Miguel Angel Ponciano, 51, leader of the National Liberation Movement. The margin was less in the outbacks, however, and at week's end, as the counting continued, it appeared that the election might be thrown into the newly elected Congress, since Montenegro seemed to lack the absolute majority required...
EARLY GERMAN OPERA FROM THE GOOSEMARKET (Angel). Opera in Germany in the early 1700s was dominated by the Italians, except in Hamburg, where a company on Goosemarket Street performed homegrown works such as Handel's Almira, Queen of Castile and The Proud, Fallen and Re-Elevated Croesus, by Reinhard Keiser, one of the most prolific opera composers of his day. A formal dance suite from Almira and several scenes from Croesus, along with excerpts from two other Goosemarket productions, are played by the Berlin Philharmonic, Wilhelm Brückner-Rüggeberg conducting...