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...MONEY kept rolling," in sings Che, the disenchanted revolutionary who narrates Evita, in describing the results of the former Argentinian First Lady's fundraising drive. But Che's lyrics also describe the success of the musical itself. After its 1978 London premier. Evita arrived on Broadway, where it swept the 1979-80 Tony Awards. Since then, road companies have opened in, among other places, Chicago, Los Angeles, Vienna, Madrid, Mexico City, South Africa, Australia and Japan. Reportedly, the yen continue to roll in as Evita finally begins its first Boston engagement...
...health boom has undoubtedly helped to popularize the Italian national dish. Some nutritionists consider it a diet food. Despite the Italian maxim Quel che non ammazza ingrassa (What doesn't kill you fattens you), plain pasta contains no more calories than rice or potatoes. It has protein, phosphorus, calcium, niacin, thiamine, riboflavin, iron and potassium, but is low in sodium...
...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...
...once absorb (even to the extent of permitting two "world wars") will no longer do. When the world has so armed itself as to make the use of those arms a stroke of global cancellation, then the casual "Let's talk about it" takes on a ticking urgency. Che sarà sarà is not an intelligent policy this side of the Last...
...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...