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...more stones that must be cut from it. "The great trick is not to waste any. They are very expensive and they cost as much to ship as to buy. We have to squeeze out every inch." Gibson spent two years in The Bronx as a monk in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. Inside the cathedral, he will tell you, he soars beyond the "furthest reaches of space...
Verdi: Aïda (Mirella Freni, soprano; José Carreras, tenor; Agnes Baltsa, mezzo-soprano; Piero Cappuccilli, baritone; Ruggero Raimondi, bass; é van Dam, bass; Katia Ricciarelli, soprano; Thomas Moser, tenor; Vienna State Opera Chorus and the Vienna Philharmonic, Herbert von Karajan, conductor; Angel; three LPs). That old Ethiopian slave girl and would-be war bride finds a new and glorious incarnation in Mirella Freni, whose voice may not move pyramids but finds its way to the heart of the role. This is particularly true in the Nile Scene, where Aïda tussles with her passion for Radames...
...Playboy Guide to Electronic Entertainment, some pop stars were asked what albums they had been listening to lately. While most listed mainstream stuff like Pink Floyd and the Police, David Byrne, leader of the Talking Heads, mentioned "Vietnam Music Instrumental Popular Songs" by Tran Quang Hai and Bach Yin, "Ethiopian Polyphony and Vocal Techniques" and "The Popular Music of North Africa" (on Vogue Records in case the Coop is out of it and you have to order...
Problems have also persisted in the area of the department's "intellectual mission." Ephraim Isaac, a former associate professor of Afro-American Studies and a scholar of Ethiopian languages, literature and Church history, filed suit this summer against the University, charging bias in the decision to deny him tenure. Isaac contends that Harvard discriminated against him because he is strictly an "Africanist." Rosovsky has said in the past that Afro-Am should place emphasis on the "Americanist" side of the concentration. The University's defense in the case is that the Faculty's instructions to give preference to Americanists over...
Problems have also persisted in the area of the department's "intellectual mission." Ephraim Isaac, a former associate professor of Afro-American Studies and a scholar of Ethiopian languages, literature and Church history, filed suit this summer against the University, charging bias in the decision to deny him tenure. Isaac contends that Harvard discriminated against him because he is strictly an "Africanist." Rosovsky has said in the past that Afro-Am should place emphasis on the "Americanist" side of the concentration. The University's defense in the case is that the Faculty's instructions to give preference to Americanists over...