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Street Rallies Give Glasnost Fresh Image; Repression Shadows Soviets' Complaints
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A burst of demonstrations here this week by groups representing
some of the disgruntled and outcast of the Soviet Union has signaled
an important turn in Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of
glasnost, or general openness.
Until recently, signs of glasnost here were limited to exposes
and criticism in some official newspapers and to films and plays that
dealt with topics once considered taboo in the Soviet Union, like the
abuses of power under former Kremlin leader Joseph Stalin.
But as Soviet dissenters heighten their profile with everything
from private gatherings to demonstrations ...
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Nicolai's Mirthful `Merry Wives'
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...temporarily forget about Giuseppe Verdi. Otto Nicolai's "The Merry Wives of Windsor...besides the different approaches of Nicolai and Verdi there are at least three...anyway. That scene is retained in Nicolai's treatment but dropped in Verdi...
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Greenwich Symphony presents works of Nicolai, Dvor?k and Tchaikovsky.(Concert review)
Newspaper article from: Stamford Advocate (Stamford, CT)
; ...audience. The overture to "The Merry Wives of Windsor" by Otto Nicolai, the Symphony No. 1 in G minor by Pyotr Tchaikovsky...audiences to Germany, the Czech Republic and Russia. "Nicolai comes from the classical tradition of Mozart and Beethoven...
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Obituaries: NICOLAI GHIAUROV
Magazine article from: Opera News
; NICOLAI GHIAUROV, Lydjene, near Velingrad, Bulgaria...attractions in this age of the tenor, but Nicolai Ghiaurov came close. He commanded a remarkable...Claudio Abbado, Herbert von Karajan, Otto Klemperer, James Levine, Lorin Maazel...
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The Merry Wives of Windsor
Magazine article from: Fanfare
; NICOLAI The Merry Wives of Windsor * Ulf Schirmer...Munich 1/13-14/2007 Recordings of Otto Nicolai's singspiel Die lustigen Weiber von...It has always struck me as ironic that Otto Nicolai, for the most part an intense, hard...
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Some strong singing brightens BU's uneven `Merry Wives'
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR Opera by Otto Nicolai, presented by the Boston University...them began with the overture to Nicolai's "Merry Wives of Windsor...to "Falstaff" isn't fair to Nicolai's opera; genius has a way of...
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Opera Theater makes `Merry' with Falstaff
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; ...subjects all but vanished while Otto Nicolai's "The Merry Wives of Windsor...Reservations: 663-0048.) Nicolai concentrates on the strengths of...way of life society denies him. Nicolai saw Shakespeare's story as a comedy...
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INDIANA UNIVERSITY JACOBS SCHOOL OF MUSIC ANNOUNCES NEW, FREE PODCAST SELECTIONS
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News
; ...Ah Bublein Klein" from The Merry Wives of Windsor by Otto Nicolai. Performed by IU Opera Theater on Oct. 23, 2008...IU Opera Theater: The Merry Wives of Windsor by Otto Nicolai (Oct. 25 and Nov. 1). The next live stream from...
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CSO, under Jean, gives Beethoven respect, but the playing is listless
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; ...violin. Overture to "The Merry Wives of Windsor" by Otto Nicolai, Mozart's Concerto for Violin No. 5, A Major...lilting Overture to "The Merry Wives of Windsor" by Otto Nicolai. He was a Viennese, but this is not fluffy, operetta...
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2010 ANNIVERSARIES
Magazine article from: The American Organist
; ...Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) Edgar Meyer (b.1960) Otto Nicolai (1810-1849) Robert Noehren (1910-2002) Johannes...McAllister (1913-1960) Jesse Middleton (1872-1960) Otto Nicolai (1810-1849) Theodore Parker (1810-1860) Hugh...
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The endangered list
Magazine article from: Opera News
; ...both - exactly once each - and nurture fond memories. Nicolai: Die Lustigen Weiber von Windsor. Against the Falstaff...operas hold their own. Yet there are wonderful moments in Otto Nicolai's treatment of Shakespeare's Merry Wives - the fairyland...
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