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Indeed, the only serious miscalculation is the awkward, discordant and ungainly love music for Ferdinand and Miranda. Its grating quality is exacerbated by the strangulated tenor of Colenton Freeman, although Soprano Sally Wolf manages to negotiate Eaton's leaps with taste and dignity. A nod in the direction of convention here would not only provide some needed aural respite but characterize the lovers more effectively...
...embassy toward the presidential palace. Most of the noisy, jostling crowd was made up of farmers from central Luzon, one of the country's principal rice-growing regions. Joined by militant students, they were protesting both high rice prices and U.S. support for the regime of President Ferdinand Marcos...
...finally caught up with the popular Prime Minister last week in an unexpected crisis over the government's handling of the May soccer riot in Brussels that left 38 dead in a clash between English and Italian fans. Six Liberal Party ministers quit after Minister of the Interior Charles-Ferdinand Nothomb, a member of the Christian Social Party, refused to accept direct responsibility for the incident. Martens offered his government's resignation, but in a rare move by the country's constitutional monarch, King Baudouin refused to accept it. The King's reason: elections would have been in August, when...
Washington has long regarded Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos as the guarantor of the strategically important U.S. military facilities at Clark Air Base, located about 60 miles northeast of Manila, and the U.S. naval station at Subic Bay. But last week the Philippine National Assembly began debate on a resolution sponsored by Marcos' Defense Minister, Juan Ponce Enrile, to abrogate the 1983 bases agreement between the two countries. Enrile was responding to a vote by the U.S. House of Representatives earlier this month to cut the Philippines' military aid next fiscal year from a proposed $100 million to $25 million...
...Concertino in Eb for Trombone and Orchestra,” by Ferdinand David, was acoustically the highlight of the evening. Professional soloist Nathaniel Dickey produced a tone sweet and pure, impressing the audience with his own virtuosic skills on the trombone and conveying a sensitivity the instrument is not usually associated with...