Word: conlon
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Mengistu's critics, all such defenses are simply evidence that those who want to provide aid become prisoners of the system: anyone who faults the dictator risks being expelled, like France's Doctors Without Borders. "We have to be discreet," concedes Frank Conlon, Africa program director for Lutheran World Relief. "In relief situations, you often don't have a lot of time for dialogue." Says Laura Kullenberg, director of the Horn of Africa program run by Oxfam America: "This is a life-and-death situation, and our choices are limited. Our mission is to make sure food gets to people...
...busting dream come to fiddling life. This disk offers the Balinese- influenced String Quartet No. 8 by the idiosyncratic Australian Peter Sculthorpe, the introspective Quartet No. 3 by conservative Finnish Composer Aulis Sallinen, Philip Glass's somber, eight-minute Company, the rarely heard 1942 String Quartet by expatriate American Conlon Nancarrow and, as an encore, an arrangement of Rock Guitarist Jimi Hendrix's Purple Haze. Talk about eclectic...
Liszt: A Faust Symphony; Two Episodes from Lenau's "Faust." (James Conlon conducting the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, with John Aler, tenor, and the men's chorus of the Slovak Philharmonic; Erato.) In the Faust legend, the romantics found all the excesses they craved: sex, violence, power, the diabolical, damnation and salvation. And in Franz Liszt, who had more than a whiff of the necromancer about him, the Faust story found an ideal musical interpreter. In works such as Malediction and Totentanz for piano and orchestra, the four Mephisto Waltzes for solo piano and, most ambitious of all, the Faust Symphony...
...romantics, has fallen out of favor today, and its length (more than 70 minutes) can seem excessive. Still, Liszt's symphony, whose three movements depict Faust, Gretchen and Mephistopheles, ought to rate high, not only for its often startling pictorialism, but for its technical skill as well. Conlon and his forces give it a vibrant reading...
...Kennedy, Boston College 54:45 3.Lynne Henderson Boston University 55:29 50 Backstroke 1.Denise Callahan, Boston College 28.29 2.Fran Kravetz, Boston University 28.78 3.Nancy Galvin, Boston University 30.81 50 Breaststroke 1.Tata McKcnna, Boston University 31.60 2.Dec Dec Mayer, Boston University 32.04 3.Linda Dixon, Boston College 32.66 100 Butterfly 1.Laura Conlon, Boston University 59.51 2.Diane DeMarcken, Boston University 59.72 3.Anne Wilson, Harvard 1:02.34 50 Freestyle 1.Sue Kitchen, Boston University 24.70 2.Lynne Henderson, Boston University 25.21 3.Susan Harris, Harvard 25.74 100 Backstroke 1.Fran Kravetz, Boston University 1:01.07 2.Marie Clepiela, Harvard 1:02.52 3.Denise Callahan, Boston College 1:04.18 100 Individual...