Word: marias
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dvorak: Symphony No. 7 in D-Minor. (London Philharmonic Orchestra, Carlo Maria Giulini conductor, Angel; Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam, Colin Davis conductor, Philips.) No other of Dvorak's nine symphonies equals the nobility and deep melancholy of this landscape of rich melody and subtly changing orchestral color. The warm, spacious performance by Giulini would be a winner at almost any time. Right now, however, it comes up against Davis and the Concertgebouw in one of their most electrifying collaborations. The lilting Czech dance rhythms in the Scherzo, for example, have the kind of freedom and spontaneity one would expect from...
...away the most vivid impression that emerges from Festival is the spectrum of genres and rhythms the band incorporates into its act. For instance, it's a big leap from the rhythm and blues beat of "Reach Up" to the heavily Latino-flavored tempo of "Maria Caracoles." The catchy rock rhythm of the second half of "The River" calls to mind some of Fleetwood Mac's most irresistible numbers, an impression that Leon Patillo's lead vocals do much to underscore...
...image of the firebird is one of the best known in ballet: a ballerina in a fantastical costume of glitter and feathers soaring through space in split leaps. The firebird most people have in mind, unconsciously or not, is Maria Tallchief, for whom George Balanchine created a dazzling version of the Stravinsky score in 1949. But Balanchine was not Stravinsky's first collaborator. In 1910 the composer and Choreographer Michel Fokine had worked out their conception at the piano...
Place to Forget. In Southern California, where spring is only a date on a calendar, some 1,200 auto vans converged on coastal Santa Maria for an annual outing. The owners, whose carpeted and stereoed vehicles cost $10,000 or more, reveled in the escapist mood of spring. "It's a place to forget your troubles, your religion, your color, your hang-ups, your job-even your kids-if you want to," exulted one vanner, who calls herself Lady Van-Detta...
Pacing outside Duino Castle near Trieste in early 1912, German Poet Rainer Maria Rilke heard a voice above the Adriatic surf: "And if I cried, who'd listen to me in those angelic orders?" Rilke took this enigmatic question as the signal to begin his chef-d'oeuvre: a series of poems that would unite the visible order of things with the invisible universe of thought-to see the world as the angels might. He finished two elegies and fragments of several others before inspiration deserted him. Ten years and a world war later, it suddenly reappeared...