Word: hebe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conclusion that "love levels all ranks." The rag woman reveals that she was nurse to the captain and Ralph at birth and that she switched them in their cradles. The show ends happily with all the lovers united and the arrogant Sir Joseph stuck with his cousin, Hebe...
...obedience law has been widely criticized, particularly by relatives of the 9,000 or more people who disappeared during the dirty war and are presumed dead. Declared Hebe de Bonafini, president of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, an organization of parents whose sons and daughters disappeared: "Obviously there was an agreement with the military. I don't think the government is with the people. It's like a dictatorship. Everything is fixed." Even Federal Prosecutor Julio Cesar Strassera, who led the government case against junta leaders two years ago, was quoted by a Spanish newspaper as calling...
...especially in the wake of the Oscar-winning movie "The Official Story," also recently suffered an unfortunate split over what are popularly rumored to be irreconcilable differences between its two leaders, both in personality and, more importantly, in sense of the group's mission. The main group, led by Hebe de Bonafini, has become fiercely and broadly political; while the small splinter group of Adela Antokaletz, it is said, has preferred to adhere to the original goal of gaining information on the disappeared. Neither side will discuss the other, but it is popularly rumored that Bonafini's hardline attitudes...
...hardy band of performers is answering yes. Last week in Los Angeles, Les Fetes d'Hebe was given a glowing new production that reveled in each melodic appoggiatura and terpsichorean temps de courante. Directed by Roland Jullien and featuring Conductor James Richman's Concert Royal, an original instrument ensemble, and Choreographers Catherine Turocy and Ann Jacoby's New York Baroque Dance Company, the production pointed up an important trend in music today. Since the turn of the century, there has been a steady march toward authenticity in musical perform-ance. Now the search for verisimilitude is being extended to stage...
...Dijon in 1683. He studied in Italy, the wellspring of baroque art, then bumped around France as an organist before finally settling in Paris about 1722. Rather late in his career--he was 50--he turned to opera and found his real metier. The opera-ballet Les Fetes d'Hebe, subtitled Les Talents Lyriques, received nearly 400 performances beginning with its premiere in 1739, gradually fading from the repertory in the decade following the composer's death...