Word: hearses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Proud as he is of Hamburg's 289-year operatic history, Liebermann is a manager who "hears ahead," in the words of one of his singers. Appropriately, six of the seven productions presented by the Hamburgers at the Met were written in the 20th century (as was a quarter...
PROKOFIEV: WAR AND PEACE (3 LPs; Heliodor). Tolstoy's epic is not the easiest assignment in operatic composing, but by concentrating on the love story of Prince Andrei and Natasha, and Kuturov's defeat of Napoleon, Prokofiev has done a surprisingly effective job. Instead of beginning with a...
One could have wished for a further development of the concluding suggestion that oftentimes neither dissenter nor defender speaks any substantial words. It is easy to lose faith in both left and right when all the observer hears are emotion-laden cliches that signify nothing.
Citing Viet Cong atrocities against South Vietnamese civilians, he deplored the fact that "one hears little of this brutality here at home. What we do hear about is our own aerial bombing against North Viet Nam." Addressing himself to those who criticize the U.S. unilaterally for "escalating" the war, he...
Into the Buchenwald barracks comes a group of prisoners from Auschwitz. Among them is an ancient Pole bearing perhaps the most unusual luggage ever brought into the camp-a cardboard suitcase containing a three-year-old boy, orphaned and alone save for his gaunt guardian who has so far kept...