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Anticipation crackled in the air as nearly 500 human rights activists, journalists and other spectators crowded into a Victorian-style courtroom in downtown Buenos Aires. For eight months the chamber had resounded with the chilling testimony of 833 witnesses as they recounted tales of murder, torture and abductions in the night committed against suspected subversives during six years of military rule from 1976 to 1982. But a heavy silence fell over the room as six appeals-court judges filed in last week to deliver their verdict on the nine military leaders who had been charged with responsibility for what Argentines...
...final scene, when Moran picks up Glass's folk- style setting of the bird's lament and brings the opera to a peaceful close. Musical collaborations historically have not been very successful, but Glass's hypnotic arpeggios and Moran's dry Stravinskian syncopations are harmoniously soldered in a chamber opera that should prove practical and durable. The Juniper Tree represents the triumph of experience over youth...
...Oklahoma Democrat David Boren heatedly told the Senate last week. Soon afterward, his colleagues deftly avoided the issue at hand. By a vote of 84 to 7, the Senate agreed merely to study congressional campaign financing by special-interest political-action committees, or PACs. In so doing, the upper chamber dodged a proposal by Boren and Arizona Republican Barry Goldwater for severe restrictions on PAC contributions, which totaled $105.3 million in last year's congressional races...
...Chamber Music Society: Macus Thompson, Director, Music Library, MIT, Memorial Drive...
...Chamber Orchestra Concert: Mystic Valley Orchestra, with harpist Elizabeth Morse, Paine Hall, Harvard...