Word: canty
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...toughest town in Brazil is grimy, industrial Caxias (pop. 136,000), on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. Its political boss is Federal Deputy Tenorio Caval-canti, who sports a beard, a flowing cape, a revolver, a bulletproof vest and 47 wounds from various shooting scrapes. He owns real estate, a newspaper and a steel-gated house, and he has boasted that he could hold it against a siege. One morning last week while Tenorio was away, 200 troops rolled up in armored trucks, with bazookas and machine guns, and cracked the fort without a shot. Tenorio's henchmen...
...sound engineers to stop the recording. Then she helped Conductor Franco Ferrara to a chair, plied him with black coffee. Ten minutes later he rapped the Santa Cecilia Orchestra of Rome to silence, led them the rest of the way through a singing recording of Ildebrando Pizzetti's Canti della Stagione Alta...
Dallapiccola: Canti di Prigionia (St. Cecilia Academy Chorus and Orchestra conducted by Igor Markevich; Angel). Italy's most important composer, Luigi Dallapiccola, admires both Schoenberg's twelve-tone system and Palestrina's pure, polished polyphony, and these long, suppliant "songs of prison" combine some interesting aspects of both...