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JOHN ALDEN CARPENTER: COLLECTED PIANO WORKS (New World). Denver Oldham plays robust, romantic keyboard music by a neglected American master...
...MOST PAINFUL SCREECH The inharmonious notes emitted by such flops as Rags, Raggedy Ann, Into the Light and Honky Tonk Nights, which indicated that the once robust Broadway musical is very sick indeed...
Like a runner trained for long distances, America's economic expansion is showing remarkable staying power, if not robust speed. The U.S. recovery, which passed the four-year marker in November, just keeps chugging ahead in spite of ever present doubts and dangers along the road. Since its start in 1982, the expansion has been refreshed at crucial intervals, first by the plunge of interest rates and later by the fall of oil prices. Now, at 49 months and counting, the durable recovery is already the second longest peacetime boom in U.S. history, after the 58-month expansion...
...current malaise was brought on by the exceptionally strong yen, which is now valued at 162 to the dollar, up nearly 40% since its February 1985 low. The yen has also risen against some European currencies -- 15% vs. the British pound, for example. The robust yen cuts demand for Japan's exports by making them more expensive to foreigners...
...what is one to make of an opera about the life and turbulent times of Francisco Goya (Domingo, in robust voice) that omits almost every significant incident in the painter's life? Of a work that concentrates on a historically disputed love affair with the Duchess of Alba (Mezzo-Soprano Victoria Vergara), concluding with a gratuitous mad scene, replete with writhing spirits and fun-house demons? Of a score whose one striking musical device, an insistent, high-pitched whine signifying Goya's deafness, is borrowed from Smetana's string quartet From My Life...