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Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 1 (Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Kurt Sanderling; Artia). When it received its premiere in 1897 in St. Petersburg, the First Symphony was so violently unpopular that Composer-Critic César Cui nominated it for first prize at "a Conservatory in Hell." Rediscovered in 1945, it proves no more shocking to modern ears than Richard Rodgers' Victory at Sea. A romantic but vigorous work, it gives little hint of Rachmaninoff's later rhapsodies. The Leningrad Philharmonic is properly muscular...
...replace Lemus the moderates chose a six-man junta: three army officers, three civilians. Colonel Miguel Angel Castillo, at 44 the oldest junta member, was customs-guard chief under Lemus; Colonel César Yáñez Urias. 40, was a key officer at San Carlos Fort, where the country's ammunition is kept; Major Rubén Alonso Rosales, 35, shared in command of El Zapote Fort overlooking the presidential palace, where the army stored most of its weapons. The civilians-Dr. Fabio Castillo, 42, and Lawyers René Fortin Magaña, 29, and Ricardo Falla...
...There was a wave of liberalism through the hemisphere," he remembers. "News filtered in to us of the university reform in Argentina, the fight in Cuba against Dictator Gerardo Machado, Guerrilla Augusto César Sandino's battle against U.S. Marines in Nicaragua, the opposition to the tyrant Augusto Leguia in Peru...
Prizes & Pedigree. Since then, there has been no stopping César. "I am like a dog with a pedigree. I've won prizes," he says. "In the studio I want to shake things. I like things to be brutal. If I see that one of my pieces is pretty, I smash it-if I have the courage." Few of the 27 pieces (at $800 to $6,075)in last week's exhibition failed to pass César's own standards of brutality and ugliness. Homage to Brancusi is a big iron egg covered with spikes...
Standing behind his towering welded shields, César now philosophically observes all Gaul at his feet. The only one who seems to have any doubts is César himself. When passion is spent and the iron is cool, he views his own works with sobering detachment. Says César: "I wind up foreign to my sculptures, and see them lucidly. The result is I'm always kicking myself in the rear...