Word: libertad
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...threw up showers of sparks from the pavement. Boys and girls sang and waved palm fronds in triumph. And trucks, cars and delivery scooters jammed into central El Conde Street, their rapturous passengers pounding hoods, fenders and roofs in an endless two-long, three-short rhythm for "En-fin, Libertad! [At last, Liberty...
...Libertad." By 5 p.m. on the appointed afternoon, Boza's church and the narrow, cobbled streets surrounding it were packed with 4,000 people. A few began to call out "Cuba Si, Rusia No"-and "Libertad." Before long, the chants swelled into a continuing roar. A group of youths climbed the church belfry and rang the bells, but they could barely be heard. The demonstration went on for three hours, mounting in intensity as the crowd chanted "Down with Castro!" One Havana police captain wormed his way into the church, confronted Boza, then startled everyone by ripping...
...Society and the Glee Club set high standards of taste for the moderns to match when they opened with Thomas Tallis's Lamentations of Jeremiah and Heinrich Schutz's 34th Psalm; three contemporary madrigals and Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex met them generally well, but Roger Sessions's Turn, O Libertad...
Triteness and cliches plague modern choral music--patriotic pieces especially--and Session's Turn, O Libertad in particular. Complex accompaniment and dissonance cannot hide its dullness and essentially barber-shop harmonies. Such was not so with Elliot Forbes's madrigal Music whose harmonies seemed amazingly fresh and lacking in cliches. The madrigal form, Emerson's text and a modern spirit, surprisingly, did not conflict. John Crawford's two madrigals have a complete texture and greater richness; both had the indispensable virtue of good musical taste...
Flying Squads. Last week some 300 union sympathizers, carrying signs in Spanish, BRACERO, PIDE TU LIBERTAD, staged a sitdown demonstration in front of one bracero camp to prevent the workers from going to the fields. At another camp, 38 pickets beat up the camp cook and two braceros with broom handles, threatened to set fire to the camp. The melee was broken up by a flying squad from the sheriff's office, which later stormed into a meeting at union headquarters and arrested six union leaders. Armed with shotguns and pistols, growers prowled their fields on the lookout...