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Falla: La Vida Breve (Victoria de los Angeles, Emilio Paya; Barcelona Opera Symphony conducted by Ernesto Halffter; Victor, 2 LPs). Written when he was nearly 30 (in 1905), this opera was chosen by Composer de Falla himself as his Op. 1. It starts as leisurely as a siesta, builds its tale of faithless love and sudden death (of a broken heart) to a warm climax. Soprano de los Angeles sings like a bird...
...knocked on an apartment-house door in a dingy corner of Barcelona identified himself as the lampista, the man from the electric company. He entered, and inspected the meter in an apartment occupied by a thin woman and a bearded man who called himself Josè Planas. The lampista noted carefully that the apartment had no back door...
...Socialist, Comorera helped found the Catalonian independence movement in the 1930s, a few years later merged it with the Communists and took command. He was Catalonia's Minister of Agriculture and Economy and its strongman when the civil war broke out. Through the war, he commuted regularly between Barcelona and Moscow to relay party orders. He policed the Catalonian party with his own Cheka, men in black leather jackets, crisscrossed by cartridge bandoleers. Their knock on a door in Catalonia usually meant torture and death to the man who answered...
...Urge. Posing as a retired schoolteacher, he tried to remain inactive in Barcelona. But a few weeks ago, hungering for intrigue, he got in touch with old friends, and started printing a clandestine Marxist newspaper. Barcelona police tracked the paper to an apartment house, finally narrowed down to the mysterious man with the dark glasses. Inspector Polo recognized him instantly...
This week the Lenin of Catalonia sat chain-smoking in a cell in Barcelona police headquarters. As an old hand at the game, he knew what came next. But at least he would die at the hands of those he had fought, not of those whom he had so long served...