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Berlioz: L'Enfance du Christ (Mezzo Janet Baker, Tenor Eric Tappy, Baritone Thomas Allen, London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis conductor, Philips; 2 LPs). Just as he could roar thunderously in the Te Deum, so Berlioz could write with reverent calm in this exquisite tapestry on the early events in Jesus' life. The music is kept deliberately simple by a chamberistic use of the orchestra and frequent resort to medieval modes and other archaic devices. Yet how fresh, urgent and devoted the result, notably in the central section-The Flight into Egypt. Continuing his pioneering Berlioz cycle, Colin Davis...
...moon summoned life out of its first home, the sea...[As] it drew the tides across the barren continents of primeval earth, their daily rhythm exposed to sun and air the creatures of the shallows...Now, the moon calls again and this time life responds with a roar that shakes earth and sky." In Serendip, unfortunately, Clarke's prose--burdened by the inappropriate subject matter--plods more often than it soars...
...quality of the education in the schools dropped to disastrous levels. Costs for administrators, aides, buses, monitors and police skyrocketed. Some parents joined organized protest groups such as ROAR. Some decided cooperation was more useful than protest and joined such court-created organizations as the Parents Advisory Councils. Some, a very small group we are all aware of, protested violently...
September 29th the Garden crowd will roar...
...Douglas Economy, 16, one of the youngest pilots licensed by the FAA, his father, and their instructor, Bill Lewis. They aim a battery-powered fan into the limp mouth of their balloon, Fat Albert, breathing life into the sagging nylon skin. Then Lewis ignites the propane burner. With a roar, hot air fills the billowing mushroom, which swells with dignity to its magnificent seven-story height...