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...time of lights, yes, but also of sounds-sounds that flood in to reassure and delight. Outdoors, bells ringing in church steeples and in the hands of Volunteers of America Santas, organ music at skating rinks, the slash of sharp blades on crisp ice. At home, crackling fires and, if it has snowed, the stamping of feet as friends come in from the cold. Much later, out of the silent indoor darkness, the unmistakable soft tinkle and pop when an ornament falls off the tree. Above all, there is the joyous sound of people singing. Across the nation this week...
...radicals, similar to Italy's Red Brigades, who scourged the country with guerrilla terror. The military's apparent mistake in fashioning the rejected constitution was the sweeping power it gave itself. Under the vague pretext of national security, it was to have a part in virtually every organ of government, and could interrupt the political process at any time the military chiefs determined that there was an emergency...
...each year's deficits -some as high as $500,000 -with regular eleventh-hour fund appeals and occasional subventions from Buckley. Yet the staff of 45, which operates out of rumpled Manhattan offices whose walls are plastered with Reagan stickers, is beginning to joke about being "an Establishment organ...
...Samuel Beckett pieces at a late date, The Berlin Requiem is a series of seven songs devoid of light, hope, and in the end life itself. It is a work of music, really, not theater at all. Weill's orchestration turns the woodwind section into a mock organ, coldly pealing in the face of death...
...with I'm the Man, the songs on Beat Crazy form an almost unbroken whole; a tune hardly has the chance to fade before another sneaks in. He perfects his delivery on "One to One". The ballad begins with a single organ chord, grows into a piano piece on loss of individuality, and recedes to its original chord. Thus, without breaking his train of musical thought, Jackson draws us into his musical continuum...