Word: che
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thinking and feeling that it is difficult to say where politics ends and my music begins." In 1968 the premiere of his oratorio The Raft of the Medusa had to be aborted when Hamburg police burst into the theater to quell a political demonstration; the work is dedicated to Che Guevara. Henze premiered his Sixth Symphony in Cuba in 1969, quoting a National Liberation Front song in the score...
...ever, colored with a golden sheen but possessing that greater richness that comes with age to singers who have taken care of their voices. In a program of opera arias and art songs, this new texture enhanced what was already a remarkable instrument. Her impassioned performance of Tu che la vanità from Don Carlos showed that she can sing more demanding music with out forcing her tone or altering the quality of her voice...
...Harvard. A Langdell tunnel map, which serves as the backdrop for several scenes, points the direction to Wall Street as well as to the cafeteria. One of the show's subplots involves the quarrels between the aspiring lady capitalist of the 1980s and her boyfriend, a self-styled Che Guevara--ever-ready to spout bleeding heart liberalism and Marxist structuralist dogma...
Other circumstantial evidence of Argentine involvement includes ammunition and ration boxes marked MADE IN ARGENTINA that have been found in La Paz. A Bolivian official who was detained at Miraflores reported that one of his interrogator-torturers referred to him as che, a common term of familiarity in Argentina. U.S. analysts believe that Garcia Meza would not have acted had it not been for assurances of Argentine financial support following the takeover. Said a senior U.S. State Department official: "Argentine fingerprints are all over this thing...
...admit to sending food and money-to aid the Bolivian people rather than the military, he explained -"because we do not want in South America what Cuba signifies in Central America." The allusion was curious, considering that the Communists have not fared well in Bolivia since the failure of Che Guevara's 1966-67 effort to launch a people's war there...