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DIED. Marcus Vinicius Cruz de Mello Moraes, 66, Brazilian poet, dramatist and lyricist who collaborated with Composer Antonio Carlos Jobim on the international hit The Girl from Ipanema and on the musical drama Orfeu da Conceição, which became the basis for the film Black Orpheus; of a lung ailment; in Rio de Janeiro. Moraes served in Brazil's diplomatic corps until the country's puritanical military bosses fired him for his "vagabond" ways, which included nine marriages. In his later years he was a fixture at Rio's all-night...
Luciano Pavarotti is the fourth greatest musicmaker of all times: 1) Apollo, 2) Orpheus, 3) Caruso, 4) Pavarotti...
Whitman won the 1958 Christian Gauss Prize for his work on Homer. He authored a volume of poetry, "Orpheus and the Moon Craters" (1941), and a long narrative poem, "Abelard...
...were two concertos, the Mozart Fifth in A Major and the Mendelssohn. Concertmaster Joseph Silverstein was the delicate, meticulous soloist in both. The Boston also used two Chinese virtuosos. Liu Dehai played a concerto for a lutelike instrument called the pipa. In the solos he all but turned into Orpheus...
...your Halloween costume) and nowhere to go? The Radcliffe Pitches welcome a costumed audience at their Halloween Jamboree this Saturday. The program includes several songs from the '40s, performed in the Pitches' inimitable style. Joining them for this concert will be the Harvard Krokodiloes, and Yale's Society of Orpheus and Bacchus. The Kroks need no introduction; as for the Elis, we hear they sound pretty good, though they still go to you-know-where. The Jamboree is in Sanders Theater; tickets at Holyoke Center or at the door...