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Hovhaness and Cage: Piano Compositions (Maro Ajemian at the piano with Alan Hovhaness assisting at piano, gong and drums; Disc, 4 sides). Hovhaness composes with ancient Armenian instruments (tar, kanoon, oud and saz) in mind, achieves a marimba-like effect on Jie piano which is near-hypnotic in its insistence on repeated notes. Maro Ajemian performs John Cage's Amores, I & IV on a Cage "prepared piano" (TIME, Feb. 22, 1943) which gives off intriguing thwacking sounds, graduated in pitch and timbre. Performance: excellent...
...central Russia to northern Iceland).* It lashed coal ships to their piers and snow-blocked 75,000 coal-laden railroad cars. Britons shivered in unheated trams, trains and subways (most transport was drastically cut), squinted under nickering candlelight in unheated offices (there was a run on aspirin, a coal-tar derivative, for eyestrain headaches), came home to huddle around the kitchen stove and to hope that a threatened cut in gas would not add to their miseries. London's Central Electricity Board was typical of the general discomfort: it met in overcoats, by candlelight...
Adventures by Sea is more curio than classic, but it has the natural charm of a genuine, if unimportant, antique. Coxere (pronounced Coxery) was a cut above the average 17th Century Jack Tar (e.g., he spoke four languages fluently). Like most of his contemporaries, he wrote phonetically-"yeuneuerseti" for university, "yeumer" (humor), "bin" (been), "westinges" (West Indies). Born in Kent, in 1633, he became coxswain and gunner aboard merchantmen whose loads ranged from Newfoundland cod to indigo, currants and muscadine wine. Between voyages: "[I] took large liberty in drinking and sporting as the manner of seamen generally...
...state"), and Article 141 (candidates for public office can be nominated only by the Communist Party and organizations which, to all intents & purposes, it controls). Many of the other 143 are relatively democratic in the Western sense. But Russians wryly say: "Lozhka dyegtya v bochke myeda" (A spoonful of tar spoils a barrel of honey...
When Russians build on frozen ground, they sink piles deep into the permafrost, melting the holes with steam jets. The piles are then wrapped in tar paper and greased, so that the topsoil, freezing and thawing with the seasons, cannot stick to them and heave them. But piles are scarce in much of Alaska, and Army engineers think they know something better: thick insulating mats to keep the permafrost always frozen...