Word: brujo
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...field trip in the Southwest, researching his thesis on medicinal plants used by local Indians. In an Arizona border town, while waiting for a bus, he met an old Yaqui Indian from northwest Mexico, Don Juan Matus. Don Juan was an exceptionally powerful "man of knowledge": a brujo, or sorcerer. Over the next ten years, Castaneda became his apprentice, as Don Juan initiated him into increasingly mysterious and alarming states of "non-ordinary reality" through the systematic use of three hallucinogenic plants: peyote, Jimson weed and psilocybe mushrooms. Thus far the outcome sounds predictable: student meets guru, blows mind, drops...
Supernatural Success. The "weak chest," as the victim calls it, may be first considered a natural disease, and the curandero treats it with herbs and donkey milk. Since it does not respond, it is then rediagnosed as a supernatural disease, for treatment by a brujo, or witch doctor...
...novelty on the program was Falla's ballet music El Amor Brujo, the best known section of which is the Ritual Dance of Fire. Based on Spanish folk spirit, Falla's music is exotic, feverish, and sometimes haunting. Soloist Malama Providakes sang with an idiomatic flavor reminiscent of the great contralto Conchita Supervia, with a dark, full-blooded tone. There were several lovely Oboe solos from Cynthia Deery, while the Orchestra as a whole played with both fire and precision...
...Orleans' Municipal Auditorium, as the audience sat listening to Guest Conductor Leopold Stokowski lead the Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra through Manuel de Falla's El Amor Brujo, the unmistakable Dixieland beat of a jazz orchestra scorched through from an adjoining ballroom. Stokowski stabbed the air with his baton, stopped his orchestra and said: "New Orleans is the only city in the world where you can buy one ticket and get two concerts." Then he retired to the wings until the competing orchestra, playing for a pre-Mardi Gras carnival ball, had stopped. Said the jazz-band leader later...
When frail, nervous Spanish Composer Manuel de Falla died two years ago in voluntary exile in Argentina, he left behind some fiery and famous works: the lyric drama La Vida Breve, the ballets El Amor Brujo and The Three-Cornered-Hat But most of his friends said: "He died too soon; he died without finishing his master piece...