Word: slovaks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Liszt: A Faust Symphony; Two Episodes from Lenau's "Faust." (James Conlon conducting the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, with John Aler, tenor, and the men's chorus of the Slovak Philharmonic; Erato.) In the Faust legend, the romantics found all the excesses they craved: sex, violence, power, the diabolical, damnation and salvation. And in Franz Liszt, who had more than a whiff of the necromancer about him, the Faust story found an ideal musical interpreter. In works such as Malediction and Totentanz for piano and orchestra, the four Mephisto Waltzes for solo piano and, most ambitious of all, the Faust Symphony...
...Jack Slovak Shelton, Conn...
...been a busy couple of weeks. First was the tourney in Auiles, Spain, where I did pretty well but lost in the semi's. Along the way I whipped the third was the top-ranked Czech junior junior (don't ask me to remember what his name was, those Slovak names really blow my mind), and then beat the second ranked Canadian, a guy named Wostenholme, in the quarterfinals...
...have withstood the enormous forces created by its fiery plunge through the atmosphere. It would have exploded before impact, scattering particles over a wide region. The explosion would have produced a fireball and intense shock waves that battered everything on the ground below. Where did the meteorite originate? Slovak Astronomer Lubar Krésak has suggested that it was a chunk of Comet Encke, a periodic visitor to the earth's vicinity that is also the probable source of an annual meteor shower in late June-the time of the Tunguska event...