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The concerto's first movement Allegro signalled some of the unusual, if dubious instrumentation which Gershwin wrote into the work. Elegant piano flurries, which Melnyk delivered with consummate clearness and excitement, seemed more than once gratuitously marred by chopping sounds from the tympani. But Gershwin's orchestration is extolled as...
The massacre at Varilla two months ago was not unique, according to a pastoral letter by Nicaragua's Roman Catholic bishops. The letter, which has not been published because of government censorship, was read from pulpits in January. It accuses President Anastasio ("Tachito") Somoza Debayle's National Guard...
One does not have to extol a radical party line to appreciate the avowedly political Passion of Antigona Perez. Only those who disfavor heroism and unalloyed democracy could find the play ideologically objectionable. Based on the Greek tragedy Antigone, the story is set in a modern Latin American distatorship where...
In the months that followed, Amin's behavior grew more and more erratic and menacing. He praised Adolf Hitler and promised to build a memorial to the Nazi leader in Kampala. He arrived at a party in a sedan chair carried by four local British businessmen who, explained Amin...
In crime, as in theater, it's not just a masterful conception but also a flawless execution that counts. Unfortunately for Softly Stealing, staged in the Kirkland House Junior Common Room with a case composed almost entirely of students from the House, the execution is not always quite right. The...