Word: argentinas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Juan José Castro, 73, Argentina's foremost conductor-composer, who exiled himself shortly after Dictator Juan Perón came to power in 1946, toured the world's concert halls for nine years before returning home; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Buenos Aires. During his long exile, Castro led orchestras from Melbourne to Belgrade, brought his lean, thoroughly modern style to numerous Latin-flavored works, most notably the opera Proserpina and the Stranger, which premiered to a tumultuous ovation at Milan's La Scala...
...Onganía was really after. It was he who had helped engineer the coup in 1966 that removed President Arturo Illia from office and installed Onganía in Buenos Aires' Casa Rosada. The liberal-minded lieutenant general, often acting in concert with his brother Alvaro, Argentina's Ambassador to the U.S., had taken a major role in shaping the military government's "Argentine revolution." That program promised economic reform to bolster the country's flagging economy. But Alsogaray favored a more democratic political base for the revolution, while the stiff-necked President favored...
Onganía's victory over his rival may prove Pyrrhic. Though two of the ousted service chiefs are to be given attractive ambassadorships, Alsogaray plans to stay in Argentina. His brother Alvaro resigned his post in Washington and is returning home. If they can attract enough supporters to contest Onganía's dominance of the government, together they hope to find a way to head Argentina back along the road to democracy...
Buenos Aires reporters clustered around the visiting literary lion and his hostess. How did Graham Greene find the food in Argentina? "I like to drink more than I like to eat," he smiled. "That is a joke," interrupted Victoria Ocampo, noted essayist and editor, "because he has come to a house where the hostess does not touch a drop of alcohol." No kidding, continued Greene, he found the Argentine whisky he was served "interesting but not very good." Er, and politics? "I am a great admirer of Fidel Castro," said Greene, after which Miss Ocampo allowed...
ALBERTO GINASTERA: CONCERTO FOR PIANO AND ORCHESTRA (RCA Victor). The violent and voluptuous new opera Bomarzo (TIME, May 26, 1967) demonstrates that Argentina's Ginastera does not let such modern disciplines as serial technique stand in the way of red-blooded musical drama. His concerto is full of mellow drama as well-racing scales, rushing rhythms and suspenseful pauses, after which, sometimes, nothing much follows. Nevertheless, orchestral color is beautifully provided by the Boston Symphony under Erich Leinsdorf, and flashy keyboard fireworks are brilliantly set off by the young Brazilian pianist Joáo Carlos Martins...