Word: deviled
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...fastnesses of the Pyrenees, bearing such unpronounceable names as Zugazagoitia and speaking a totally incomprehensible tongue, no longer conform to their old image. From Urzaingui to Munguia, they have taken up Spanish in place of their own archaic language-an agglutinated monstrosity that, according to Basque legend, even the Devil could not learn: in seven years of trying, he mastered only the words for yes (bai) and no (ez). More important, Basques by the hundreds of thousands have come out of their tight green mountain valleys and moved to the cities to become businessmen, industrialists and factory workers...
...lyrical fairy tale he composed 50 years ago. In addition, Ross got Saul Steinberg, whose metaphysically satirical cartoons appear in The New Yorker, to design the sets; Actor Basil Rathbone was the narrator, Screen Actor John Gavin the soldier, Ballerina Marina Svetlova the princess, and Dancer Anton Dolin the Devil...
Stravinsky called the 93-minute Sol at "musical theater without singing." With narration, dialogue, mime and a charming score* that prances through tangos, jazz waltzes and chorales, it tells the parable of a soldier who encounters the Devil and sells him his fiddle (his soul) in exchange for the secret to the world's treasures. When wealth brings him misery, the soldier regains his fiddle but loses his soul once more by violating the Devil's condition that he never return to his homeland...
...lowered like window shades and decorated with semi-Oriental fantasy furniture in the style of china-plate Ming. "I have made the sets to coincide with the work's philosophical nature," Steinberg explained, and then mischievously interpreted Stravinsky's allegory: "This work shows the usefulness of the Devil. He changes people's lives by giving them things they don't really want. The evolutionary quality of the Devil is very useful...
...Melodiya-Angel). Written at the end of World War I, Histoire is a clever little musical outrage featuring a demented tango, ragtime gone wrong, a satanic mockery of a Bach chorale, and countless other musical japes in the story of a soldier who sells his soul to the Devil, wins it back and finally loses it again. The Prokofiev is also dramatic, originally composed for a ballet about a circus. The Moscow Chamber Ensemble, led by Gennedy Rozhdestvensky, has just the right touch for both: cool, brusque, almost offhandish virtuosity...