Word: solidities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That music is admirably presented by Kent Nagano, 37, a long-maned Californian who has guest-conducted widely and won a solid reputation for his performances of works by such contemporaries as Olivier Messiaen and Steve Reich. His reading of Mahagonny is sharp, clear and briskly energetic (even a bit too much so in the lovely "cranes duet"). Gary Bachlund brings an appropriate touch of Nelson Eddy to the role of the doomed hero, though Anna Steiger (daughter of Rod) plays Jenny with a less happy touch of Jeanette MacDonald. As Lotte Lenya taught a whole generation of admirers, Weill...
...Member Yegor Ligachev in East Berlin last week. Moscow said the trip was long planned, but there was little doubt that the presence of Ligachev, a hard-liner known for his resistance to Gorbachev's reforms, could not help reassuring intransigent East Germany that its ties with Moscow remained solid. If East Germany was also quietly being urged to adopt a more flexible posture, Ligachev was the man to deliver the message...
...Toit (Donald Sutherland), asking him to help find his son. The boy was taken into police custody during the Soweto protests of 1976 and has disappeared. Du Toit, a calm and rational man, believes this is surely just a bureaucratic muddle that can be easily ameliorated by a solid citizen's firm but polite intervention...
Throughout the tournament, tenacious defense and solid goaltending from freshmen Danny Oaks and Peter Toot helped the Crimson uphold the status of its high preseason standing...
...Captain Christina Dragomirescu, senior Niki Rival, junior Amy deLone and sophomore Jennifer Minkus will be the top returning Harvard players who must live up to the squad's bigshot reputation earned after last spring's solid 15-11 season when the Crimson finished tied for first in the Ivy League...