Word: elektra
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...More Fun in the New World (Elektra). The New Wave rolls on: if William S. Burroughs fronted a garage band, it would sound like this...
...required singers capable of searing dramatic flights, coupled with limpid lyricism. And Richard Strauss, envisioning his ideal Salome, was only partly joking when he asked for a 16-year-old with the voice of Isolde. No wonder then that outstanding interpreters of such operatic peaks as Briinnhilde, Turandot and Elektra are in perennially short supply...
...benefit of those in the audience who might not grasp every nuance of archaic Mandarin. Sills resolved to take a cue from what she witnessed. The idea was reinforced when the Canadian Opera in Toronto pioneered the use of English captions in its productions of Richard Strauss's Elektra and Claudio Monteverdi's L'Incoronazione di Poppea...
...Euripides were quick to detect a parallel between Mourning Becomes Electra and the classic tragedy, recalled how Agamemnon, returning from the Trojan War, was killed by his wife (Clytemnestra), how the long-lost son Orestes finally killed his mother's lover and his mother at the instigation of Elektra...
...blossoming Beantown bands the seminar offered a chance to meet A & R directors from major labels such as Elektra, MCA, and Epic among others. Some bands, like the Naekidz, sat through the eight hour day, others, the Sex Execs for one, sent their managers to push their tapes and privately pressed records. Advice for beginning bands was abundant, but often contradictory. The major record labels emphasized management. Unmanaged bands rarely get a hearing from the big companies, although Steve Leeds of MCA insisted that every tape that comes in gets listened to by somebody. The independent labels, with...