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...works performed in Chicago were typical of Henze's eclectic style. In Los Caprichos, a gentle, evocative fantasy for orchestra, he draws on a series of etchings by Goya for inspiration. For Il Vitalino Raddoppiato, Henze goes back to the Baroque Chaconne attributed to Tomaso Vitali, composing an extended (26 minutes), virtuosic set of variations for violin and orchestra that preserves the repeating harmonic structure of Vitali's music while steadily growing in complexity. Arien des Orpheus is an elegiac suite from his full-length ballet Orpheus, based on the Greek myth. And in Barcarola, a darkly impressive...
...presides over weekly sessions of the Council of the Curia, the Vatican's chief administrative body, and keeps a watchful eye over the Holy See's worldwide communication network, as well as its complex local government. For weeks the Italian press has been referring to him as "il Vice Papa." Even so, many matters of doctrine and morals, which only the Pope can deal with, have been piling up. John Paul, for example, must rule on all annulment petitions and requests from clerics who want to leave the priesthood. Cardinals need to be appointed in a number...
...raced to form a new government. Last week FitzGerald won. He crafted an ingenious pact between his own pro-business Fine Gael (Family of the Irish) party and the ideologically distant, pro-union Labor Party. The result: a razor-thin majority of three seats in the Irish Dáil (parliament)-and a coalition so vulnerable it will take all of FitzGerald's wizardry just to last out the summer...
Perhaps the greatest threat to the new government lies in Northern Ireland. I.R.A. Militants Kieran Doherty and Paddy Agnew, both 26, won seats to the Dáil in last month's election, but neither has been able to attend. They are prisoners in the H-block of Ulster's Maze Prison, where Doherty is now in the seventh week of a hunger strike. His death or Agnew's resignation would cause by-elections that could be won by Haughey and his Fianna Fail (Band of Destiny) party, thereby weakening FitzGerald's government still more. That...
...When I was first asked to come to St. Louis as a consultant," recalls Gaddes, "I think I was expected to recommend that they get a large hall, hire Renata Scotto and do Il Trovatore." Instead, St. Louis has heard Rameau's Pygmalion, Martin y Soler's Tree of Chastity and the world premiere of The Village Singer, by the American composer Stephen Paulus...