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...singers were superbly backed by John Miner's orchestra. The overture was done with a speed and precision that puts to shame the student orchestras in the vicinity, which this definitely was not. The violin section was outstanding, playing presto sixteenth-note runs with a remarkable unity. The strings never covered wind solos, among them the beautiful clarinet and bassoon accompaniment to Don Ottavio's Il Mio Tesoro Intanto. An important detail was the size of the harpsichord: mercifully, it was large enough to cut through the heavier scoring, avoiding the distracting jangle that is the fate of a small...
...GIOVANNI by Mozart and Da Ponte: Leverett Opera Society, conductor John Miner, director David Bartholomew, Loeb Mainstage May 7, 9, 11 8:00 PM $2.25 and May 6 1:30 FREE...
...forms of drama and opera. The story is based on the legend of Don Juan and the Stone Guest; the production itself, producer Howard Hawkins points out, is bursting with talent. Director David Bartholemew is chairman of the Opera-Theatre Department at the Boston Conservatory; musical director John Miner will be conducting fellow at Tanglewood this summer. To say nothing of the cast. "The production is the result of a strange situation in Boston," Hawkins muses. "There are no decent English-speaking opera companies in the area and only two professional companies, despite the fact that Boston has a concentration...
...miners' grievances have a bitter twist; many date their ills from the nationalization of the mines in 1946, a goal that the workers had sought for generations. At that time, the men who ran the Coal Board, aiming to keep coal competitive with oil and atomic power, began to modernize the industry-and cut the work force from 750,000 men to the present 283,000. Always the Coal Board had the last word, with the power of the government behind it. "Ever since nationalization," said a middle-aged miner in the Easington Colliery Club last week, "they...
...level, Allende hoped that the Cuban revolutionary's presence would sanctify his own efforts to tame Chile's obstreperous unions and mollify the extremists who want to turn the country into a pure socialist state overnight. With those elements, Castro certainly scored some points; one Chuquicamata copper miner enthusiastically told newsmen last week that "Fidel made us see the importance of our producing more. Now, we are all Fidelistas." But the visit also cost Allende some of his remaining good will among the Chilean political middle, which does not hold the Cuban dictator in particular esteem...