Word: symphonicment
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Outside Weimar, near a large Soviet military base, the former Nazi concentration camp of Buchenwald lies on the slopes of the Ettersberg, a desolate memorial to the more than 50,000 prisoners of war, Jews, Slavs, gypsies, political dissidents and other "undesirables" who died there. Two shrunken heads are on...
In its present form, Rice's story has holes to plug and a narrative in need of streamlining, but it offers him a contemporary setting for his favorite theme: the pernicious lure of stardom, whether biblical, political or intellectual. His lyrics mix roguish wit (Bangkok contains the unlikely couplet "Tea...
The mystery of the missing General Secretary of the Communist Party intensified last week. In Moscow, Politburo Member Mikhail Gorbachev, 53, viewed by many as the heir apparent to the leadership, canceled a trip to Paris, where he had been expected to attend the 25th congress of the French Communist...
STRAUSS: Also Sprach Zarathustra; Macbeth (Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Lorin Maazel, conductor; Deutsche Grammophon). Who could have predicted that a tone poem based on Friedrich Nietzsche's notions of the death of God, the will to power and the rise of a superman would become one of symphonic literature'...
The only other couple with similar ambitions were the Americans. Blumberg, 26, and Seibert, 24, chose to skate to Rimsky-Korsakov's lush symphonic suite Schéhérazade. Under the tutelage of Bobby Thompson, a British coach close to Torvill and Dean, the pair had revamped their...