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...score has two powerful moments that foreshadow the composer's mature style. The first comes in the opening, when the heroine Odabella (Soprano Marilyn Zschau) confronts Attila (Bass Samuel Ramey), who has just killed her father and razed her city, Aquileia. In a fiery aria laced with coloratura, she swears vengeance. Around her a chorus of barbarians praises Attila's conquests. The scene is an early example of the art of dramatic juxtaposition perfected at the end of the third act of Otello, with lago gloating over his fallen master as the Venetians outside sing the Moor...
...research world, published a major article attacking the incest taboo. Though the journal's editor, Mary Calderone, and her colleagues ran an ingenuous editorial denying that the article was advocating anything, the piece in fact depicted the taboo as a mindless prejudice. Wrote the author, James W. Ramey: "We are roughly in the same position today regarding incest as we were a hundred years ago with respect to our fears of masturbation." Ramey, a researcher who has worked with many of the leading sex investigators, says the incest taboo owes something to "a peculiarly American problemthe withdrawal...
...Foster, the symphony's regular leader since 1972, makes his players key members of the drama. He cannot draw from Sopranos Evelyn Mandac (Almirena) and Noelle Rogers (Armida) the Baroque bravura he gets from Home, but Mandac is an especially lovely singer with a bright future. In Samuel Ramey (Argante), Foster has a bass baritone of extraordinary dramatic and lyric gifts, and it is easy to see why Ramey is fast filling the shoes and cape of the late Norman Treigle in Houston, at the New York City Opera and else where around the U.S. William Bender
Though environmentalists are understandably loath to say so, the cost of satisfying their demands would be unrealistically high. The Pennsylvania coal mining town of Ramey learned that lesson not long ago, when it received a stern order from the commonwealth's department of environmental resources: Stop untreated waste from flowing into nearby Little Muddy Creek and begin building a new $1.3 million sewer system. Only 80 of Ramey's 500 residents have regular jobs; the rest get by on Social Security, welfare, unemployment insurance, and other forms of Government aid. Last year the assessed valuation...
...afford anything, to be honest," protests the town's mayor, John McQuown. "I just couldn't pay," echoes one Ramey resident. Yet Pennsylvania court rulings in similar cases have held that financial hardship is not a valid excuse for polluting the waters of the commonwealth. Is the town doomed then? Not necessarily. "If Ramey can't get a bond issue underwritten, the state can do what it wants, but it is not going to get a sewer system in there," says Thomas M. Burke, a lawyer for the department of environmental resources. "We're just...