Word: marchese
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Martins has relied on Balanchine's methods but used them creatively. Stravinsky's music marches and prances, waltzes and tangos; formal arrangements suddenly give way to the tinkling of rag time. The choreographer must somehow make the abrupt look fluid. Martins does so by keeping the transitions loose...
Ineffable pianissimos anticipate the loud reveilles and marches. Even Georg Solti with the Chicago Symphony (on London) cannot make the airs as sweet as Abbado does. If Solti got high with the Chicago before the 1970 release of his recording, Abbado, hardened by years of vicissitudes from fighting Mahler's...
At a day-long series of rallies and marches, the demonstrators--drawn from groups including the National Anarchists Movement, the Youth International (Yippies) Party and the National Organization of Women (NOW)--protested everything from the return of the draft to the Republican Party's failure to endorse the Equal Rights...
For days, in newspapers, magazines and special television broadcasts, the death of a popular entertainer took precedence over wars, diplomatic démarches and economic crises. Newsstands were blanketed with cover stories: in TIME, Newsweek, PEOPLE, New York, Us, the Village Voice, Soho News, Boston Phoenix, Cash Box, Record World...
We are not criminals. We are ready and willing to meet an agonizing death to establish that we are political prisoners." So saying, seven inmates between the ages of 25 and 32, all of them convicted as Irish Republican terrorists (three for murder), went on a hunger strike on Oct...