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...this spa 17 miles north of Marseille. A wide spectrum of traditional and 20th century repertory will be offered in symphonic and chamber music programs. Also on the schedule is a series of musical films, including Beethoven's Ninth Symphony conducted by Von Karajan, A Homage to Edgar Varèse, and a feature on avant-garde Composers Karlheinz Stockhausen and Olivier Messiaen...
Still, what Ruggles has produced is powerful, direct, dense, thoroughly modern American music. In the 1920s and 1930s, when he wrote most of it, he was considered to be every bit as original and daring as his composer pals Edgar Varèse (whom he always called "Goofy") and "Charlie" Ives. The correctness of that judgment again became clear last week at Bennington, Vt, where Ruggles' friends, colleagues and neighbors staged a concert of his complete works. There were a song cycle, Vox damans in Deserto, a piano suite called Evocations and a short composition for muted brass called...
...charts-he recently signed a contract to develop new talent for Columbia Records. Guercio quit college "when John Kennedy died and the Beatles were born," went on the road with such groups as Chad & Jeremy and The Mothers of Invention. Like his idol, the late avant-garde composer Edgard Varèse, he is given to such pronouncements as, "A record is sound forever, not just a disk of plastic," and, "I'm desperately trying to wake the world...
Manuela was more than a colonel in the army of Simón Bolívar, who liberated the west coast of South America from the Spaniards early in the last century. She was also 'Bolívar's political fixer and counselor and, for eight years, his mistress (her husband finally divorced her). As this book makes clear, "La Sáenz," the illegitimate daughter of a Spanish nobleman and an Ecuadorian peasant girl, was a remarkable young woman. She raised money and equipment when the Liberator's armies were flagging, took over affairs of state...
Author Aguilera Malta, a noted Ecuadorian writer, was able to draw on the best possible source for this historical novel: Manuela herself. In addition to her other activities, she was the official archivist for Bolívar's army, and her records document much of the tragedy, trivia and triumph that accompanied the 14-year battle to drive the godos (Spaniards) out of Latin America...