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...here, sung by an assemblage of stars: Renata Tebaldi, Carlo Bergonzi, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Nicolai Ghiaurov and Grace Bumbry. Their voices often outshine their characterizations (though Bumbry is good as Eboli and Ghiaurov as Philip), and the solos are stronger than the ensembles. Conductor Georg Solti generally keeps rein on the sprawling tragedy, which unfolds with dark grandeur and erupts with fiery excitement in the auto da fe in the great Spanish square...
...Middle-Roader Méndez never spelled out his strategy for ending Communist terrorism. "Progress for all Guatemalans," he said simply, "is the answer to violent revolution." Just to give progress a hand, however, Peralta extracted a promise from Méndez that the military would have a free rein in hunting down the 500-odd guerrillas operating in Guatemala's hills and jungles...
...shooting off into outer space." It is to make sure that this does not happen that Johnson all week -in public and in private, over telephone and microphone-exhorted everyone from housewife to Governor, labor leader to corporation head, to fight off inflation by clamping a tight rein on his spending. "The amber light is on," he warned. "We must see that some restraint is applied...
Vigil's End. In the withering preliminary rounds, the first to be weeded out were the conductors who, like a child walking a Great Dane, were unable to hold a tight rein on the Orchestra of America. In the semifinals, which none of a ten-man U.S. contingent was able to reach, the remaining 13 candidates were put through a musical obstacle course: they had to conduct the first movement of Berlioz' Symphonic Fantastique, Debussy's First Rhapsody for clarinet and piano, a recitative and aria from Beethoven's Fidelio, and a surprise modern piece-Andre...
...directions for the orgy as a climax to the second act of his twelve-tone masterpiece Moses and Aaron. Rightly convinced that just recognition for his music would never come in his lifetime, Schoenberg was supremely indifferent about whether his works were performed or not. Thus, giving free rein to his imagination in Moses and Aaron, he called for herds of live camels and asses, horses and sheep to be slaughtered on stage, and "bloody lumps of meat" to be thrown to a chorus of 600 voices. After he finished the first two acts in 1932-a projected third...