Word: musicale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Aside from the witty lines he fed Mor ley, Screenwriter Peter Stone has concoct ed a script strewn with terrible puns ("Ban the bombe") and snickering double-entendre gags that make all the tired connections between food and sex. The arbitrary plot about a chef murderer hops from place to...
DIED. Jacques Brel, 49, Belgian-born composer and singer whose 500 or so plaintive, compassionate songs became best known in the U.S. through the cabaret-style musical Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris; of a pulmonary embolism; in Bobigny, France. With a dramatic intensity often likened...
Down came the technological slogans in the square of Brno, Czechoslovakia (pop. 365,000). Up went huge posters of an intense-looking, white-haired man who could be a commanding commissar but who, in Brno at least, is more venerated than any socialist leader: Czech Composer Leoš Janá...
It was an impressive display for a composer whose first memorable work was completed at age 48 and whose musical merit was debated for years. An ardent nationalist and legendary eccentric, Janacek composed music full of short, abrupt but harmonically lovely melodies that built from one another into a driving...
Janáček's musical genius did not really bloom until he was 63. Then he fell madly in love with Kamilla Stoesslova, the pretty young wife of an antique dealer. Although the composer always contended that their love was platonic, hundreds of steamy letters, discreetly tucked away...