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...insurgents' action was carefully timed to take place when both the Prime Minister and General Arthit Kamlang-ek, Thailand's Supreme Commander, were out of the country. Before his departure, however, Prem had been informed by Thai intelligence that a coup might occur and alerted loyalist military brass. By 10 a.m. on the day of the coup attempt, an estimated 500 rebels found themselves squaring off against more than 1,000 loyalist troops near First Division headquarters, which also houses the army's main radio station. Without warning, rebel tanks and machine gunners opened fire. The action killed NBC Cameraman...
...ek: Jenufa (London). The greatest of Leoš Janáćek's nine operas gets a recording worthy of its stature from Sir Charles Mackerras and Soprano Elisabeth Söderstr...
...ek: Sinfonietta, Taras Bulba (London). The Sinfonietta is exhilaratingly played by Sir Charles Mackerras and the Vienna Philharmonic...
...Over There, to be published this spring, aided in the production of his off-Broadway musical Really Rosie, designed sets for the Houston Opera's version of The Magic Flute and is at work on the New York City Opera's American premiere of Janáček's The Cunning Little Vixen. In addition, he has been making appearances in bookstores to sign copies of a coffee-table retrospective, The Art of Maurice Sendak, by Selma G. Lanes. In the midst of this hectic schedule he paused for breath in his bachelor retreat in rural Connecticut...
Ironically, the hottest tickets in town were to Janáček's three weak operas (Šárka, The Beginning of a Romance, Fate), collectors' items so rarely performed or recorded that they virtually had to be heard in Brno...