Word: luigi
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...Karl Marx were to visit Italy's capital of Rome, he would be undone by what the Romans do under a Communist administration. Communist Mayor Luigi Petroselli, 47, and his Communist predecessor have pushed forward a slum clearance program that has won only the enmity of the city's poor. Instead of being grateful, families that were moved into new apartment buildings in Rome from shantytowns outside the capital complained that they had to pay city taxes and electric bills. Formerly, the shantytown dwellers had obtained free electricity by tapping power lines. They also complained that apartment living...
Bartók: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 (Maurizio Pollini, Chicago Symphony, Claudio Abbado conductor, Deutsche Grammophon). Pollini has had a banner year on disc, issuing fine performances of a staple of the repertory (Beethoven's Third Concerto) as well as an avant-garde experiment (Luigi Nono's... sofferte onde serene ...). This set-modernist but accessible- falls happily in-between. Bartók's angular octaves and Hungarian folk rhythms tempt many pianists to turn into percussionists. Pollini achieves a biting authority without ever banging...