Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Schubert, Symphony No. 9 in C; Debussy, Ibéria and La Mer; Berlioz, Queen Mab Scherzo; Respighi, Feste Romane; Mendelssohn, A Midsummer Night's Dream; Strauss, Death and Transfiguration; Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 6 (Pathétique): The Philadelphia Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini conducting (5 LPs, RCA). When Toscanini made these recordings in 1941-42 with the orchestra Leopold Stokowski had built, it was astonishing, then as now, to note how readily the musicians yielded their lush sound and fat phrasing to the brilliant, transparent, sharply contoured style that Toscanini favored. The resulting interpretations are still splendid to hear-spacious...
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...have such complexes. Our leadership includes both Christians and Moslems. During the civil war, the isolationists attacked Christian Palestinian refugee camps, just as they attacked Moslem Palestinian camps. In Israel, many Palestinian Christians are in prison. But as I have mentioned often before, a unified Palestine is my dream-and I have the right to dream...
...Seven Deadly Sins. Celebrated Choreographer George Balanchine chose her to play the lead role of the peripatetic showgirl Annie, a part created in 1933 by Weill's widow Lotte Lenya. Why? "She has a good voice and red hair." Says Bette: "It's a dream come true. Next year, Firebird...
...long history. In 1945 he produced the one contemporary opera, Peter Grimes, that has found a firm place in international repertory. Of the 14 other operas that he wrote, Billy Budd may soon earn a similar popularity, and if it does not, the underappreciated A Midsummer Night's Dream should. His plentiful songs and chamber works show the soulful, reflective side of his nature. The declamatory, powerful War Requiem (1962), which deploys huge forces and intersperses liturgical Latin with antiwar poetry, is perhaps his best work. Not one to compose in a vacuum or ivory tower, Britten...