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...participatory society." An indirect church-state clash occurred this spring when Brazil's auto metalworkers began a 41-day strike in Sao Paulo. The government, which is desperately trying to build up Brazil's industrial production, declared the strike illegal and took control of the unions. Bishop Claudio Hummes. Arns' head of the labor pastorate, promptly opened 75 churches for strike meetings and food distribution. Earlier this year, too, by an overwhelming vote (172 to 4, though with four abstentions and 100 absent), the National Conference of Brazilian Bishops took a stand on land reform, Brazil...
Pollini and Nono spend part of each summer at Conductor Claudio Abbado's house in Sardinia, playing netball and cards and, of course, arguing politics. (Pollini and Abbado are former members of the Communist Party, Nono still belongs.) When Pollini is not going to the movies -Woody Allen is a favorite-he reads constantly to enrich his musical culture: criticism, biographies, memoirs. In his practicing, as in everything about the piano, he goes his own way. There was, for instance, the time he closeted himself to prepare for an important concert. Friends, hearing no music, opened his door...
...concentration, similar to what an undergraduate program in comparative literature would be like, would focus on criticism and development of literary genres, Claudio Guillen, chairman of the Comparative Literature Department and one of a group of faculty members organizing the concentration proposal, said yesterday...
Bartók: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 (Maurizio Pollini, Chicago Symphony, Claudio Abbado conductor, Deutsche Grammophon). Pollini has had a banner year on disc, issuing fine performances of a staple of the repertory (Beethoven's Third Concerto) as well as an avant-garde experiment (Luigi Nono's... sofferte onde serene ...). This set-modernist but accessible- falls happily in-between. Bartók's angular octaves and Hungarian folk rhythms tempt many pianists to turn into percussionists. Pollini achieves a biting authority without ever banging...
Said Jackson: "I ended up at the wrong place at the wrong time." He acknowledged, however, that he had collaborated with the CIA in the past. The fourth, Puerto Rican-born Claudio Rodriguez Morales, 49, was jailed in 1966 for trying to smuggle Cubans out of the country...