Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Died. Field Marshal Viscount Slim, 79, leader of the "forgotten army" that liberated Burma from the Japanese in World War II; of a stroke; in London. Low on the priority list for supplies and troop replacements, Slim's 800,000-man force often went to battle as lightly armed...
Everywhere last week, or so it seemed, music was celebrating the birth of one of its mightiest titans 200 years ago on an upper floor of Bonngasse 515, Bonn. New productions of Fidelio were unveiled at Stockholm's Royal Opera and New York's Metropolitan. Bonn capped months...
Like the work of every great creative artist, Beethoven's music evokes different deep, personal responses in different people. The one trait he symbolizes to everyone, however, is freedom-his own freedom as an artist, all men's freedom to live their own lives. Beethoven's loftiest...
Vocal Heart. A thoroughly proper success it was, too. Böhm gave Beethoven's orchestral writing a brassy surface excitement that had a celebrity-filled audience cheering to the chandeliers. Save for a shaky Abscheulicher! in Act I, Soprano Leonie Rysanek as Leonore rescued her mate Florestan from...
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