Word: passions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Verdi: Aïda (Leontyne Price, Rita Gorr, Jon Vickers, Robert Merrill, Giorgio Tozzi; Rome Opera House Orchestra and Chorus, Georg Solti conducting; RCA Victor, three LPs). Soprano Price's tigerish passion and luminous voice discover a moving Aïda-and cleave through the massed choral and orchestral sound unfalteringly...
...with a lifelong fascination for fire engines. He began playing the horses when he was 14, later joined a Wall Street firm that specialized in railroad bonds, was one of the first to make a fortune out of the sale of public utility securities. His wife Maud had a passion for art that proved contagious. "She had the knowledge.'' Dale said. "I had the acquisitiveness.'' And that was how the great collection began...
...Passion Flower Hotel, Erskine...
...What's going to happen?" the answer last month was on verra bien (we'll see about it) instead of the usual c'est sera sera (what will be will be). This new confidence is changing what Chanzeaux--and the rest of France--expects from politics, and moderating the passion with which villagers have traditionally treated political controversy...
Martin has used and over-used all these devices for building harmony into 12-note techniques in La Mystere de la Nativite, his most recent major work. This composition is a setting of selections from the Prologue and First Day of a medieval passion play by Arnoul Greban. On his choice of a medieval text for La Mystere, he comments, "It is important to preserve in this work the atmosphere of the close of the Middle Ages...