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what did shostakovich write for rostropovich ?
rostropovich 's brilliant technique and burnished tone will be applied to one of two cello concertos written especially for him by dmitri shostakovich .
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the polonaise from tchaikovsky 's opera eugene onegin was a brief but cracking opener and its brilliant bluster was no sooner in our ears than forcibly contradicted by the bleak depression of shostakovich 's second cello concerto , op .
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what did shostakovich write for rostropovich ?
the new work on this occasion was gerhard schedl 's second piano trio , subtitled 'lamento ' , which takes the music of the two armed men from mozart 's die zauberflote and sets isolated phrases from it afloat in a sea of vaguely expressionist sounds : not a piece of strong individual merit , although at 10 minutes it did not outstay its welcome .
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shostakovich 's invention is not perhaps of the most distinguished in this work , which is just a very good performance 'on the shostakovich ' ; but harrell read in a marvellous intensity everywhere and the orchestra answered kreizberg 's evident commitment with a high-tension accompaniment notable for individual excellences -lrb- the sturdy peculiar horn calls at the end of the first movement , the split -second demented xylophone interjections of the scherzo -rrb- as well as formidable group cohesiveness .
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what is mexico 's population ?
mexico 's current population is 98.1 million .
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where is mesa verde national park ?
mesa verde national park , colo .
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july 26 , 2000 -- colo-fires-archeology-2 -- as a wildfire continues to race through colorado 's mesa verde national park in cortez , colo. , and firefighters battle the 22 , 000-acre blaze , archaeologists have scrambled ahead of it , working to identify previously undiscovered ancient native american sites .
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where is mesa verde national park ?
july 26 , 2000 -- colo-fires-archeology-1 -- brush fires burn down a hillside in colorado 's mesa verde national park in cortez , colo. , where firefighters continued to battle a 22 , 000-acre blaze ignited last thursday after a lightning strike on private land .
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where is mesa verde national park ?
silent films , labs used in the manhattan project and remnants of the apollo space program are among the national treasures that will be preserved through $ 30 million in federal grants announced wednesday .
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the national film preservation foundation in san francisco will get $ 1 million to save silent films , which mrs. clinton referred to as the `` precursors to the latest ` star wars ' prequel. ''
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the complex at the los alamos national laboratory in new mexico will be open to the public for the first time .
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$ 1.4 million to conserve more than 2,500 apollo -era artifacts collected by the national air and space museum .
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where is mesa verde national park ?
$ 1.5 million to conserve 13th century cliff dwellings at what is now the mesa verde national park in colorado .
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where is mesa verde national park ?
mrs. clinton is to visit mesa verde on saturday as part of a four-day tour of national treasures in the southwest .
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where is mesa verde national park ?
hillary rodham clinton , decked out in a cowboy hat and turquoise , toured an ancient indian village atop a sandstone mesa friday to promote the preservation of america 's past , including a 360-year-old mission church .
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where is mesa verde national park ?
she visited arizona on wednesday and then headed later in the day to mesa verde national park in colorado for a saturday tour of cliff palace .
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at sky city , the acomas ' ancient village atop a 367-foot mesa , she toured the water-damaged san esteban del rey , a massive adobe roman catholic mission built in the 17th century .
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where is mesa verde national park ?
a 93-year-old potter , concepcion faustine , is among 30 people who live year-round atop the mesa , which has no electricity and only three cisterns to collect water .
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mrs. clinton was in the southwest to promote the save america 's treasures program , a public-private partnership between the national trust for historic preservation and the white house millennium council .
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where is mesa verde national park ?
authorities closed mesa verde national park and ordered 1,000 day campers and visitors to leave thursday after a wildfire raced through tinder-dry brush , growing from 50 acres to 500 acres in about three hours .
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where is mesa verde national park ?
mesa verde , about 35 miles west of durango in southwestern colorado , is laden with cliff dwellings of the ancestral pueblos .
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where is mesa verde national park ?
it was established by congress on june 29 , 1906 , as the first cultural park set aside in the national park system .
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firefighters also worked thursday to protect livestock and a home from a wildfire on 950 acres in national forest and private land northwest of meeker , about 150 miles northwest of denver .
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where is mesa verde national park ?
six other fires that were less than 100 acres each were burning across colorado .
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fire crews called in reinforcements friday to battle a 1 , 500-acre wildfire that spread quickly across tinder-dry mesas and canyons , forcing the evacuation of about 1,000 tourists from mesa verde national park .
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the fire was not threatening any of the cliff dwellings and mesa villages built by pueblo indians up to 1,400 years ago .
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national park service officials said the park would probably remain off-limits to tourists through the weekend .
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the fire began with a prescribed burn set may 4 by the national park service .
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nearly 56,000 fires have burned 2.8 million acres across the nation this season , according to the national interagency fire center in idaho .
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where is mesa verde national park ?
mesa verde national park : http : //www. nps . gov/meve/
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colorado fire doubles in size
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fire crews called in reinforcements to battle a 3 , 500-acre wildfire that doubled in size friday , spreading quickly across tinder-dry mesas and canyons and forcing the evacuation of 1,000 tourists from mesa verde national park .
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the bill invites a veto confrontation over budget surplus politics with president clinton as the gop prepares for its national convention to nominate george w. bush .
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fire crews fought the 20 , 000-acre blaze at mesa verde national park in southwestern colorado with the help of archaeologists who walked along in front to pinpoint ancient sites that need special protection .
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archaeologists are marking the sites with color-coded flags that denote new and previously identified sites .
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'' we 're putting together the pieces of the puzzle of how people who have been gone for hundreds of years live , '' said national park service archaeologist jane anderson .
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fires have burned nearly 3 million acres nationwide this season , the largest acreage total since 1996 , according to the national interagency fire center in idaho .
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national interagency fire center : http : //www. nifc . gov
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mesa verde national park : http : //www. nps . gov/meve
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poll : bush , gore race remains close
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the presidential race between george w. bush and al gore remains close in the days before the republican national convention , says a new poll , though bush holds persistent underlying advantages on voters ' perception of several important personal qualities .
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mesa verde fire burns 22,000 acres
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fire crews fought the 22 , 000-acre blaze at mesa verde national park in southwestern colorado with the help of archaeologists who walked along in front to pinpoint ancient sites that need special protection .
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the fire just outside the idaho national engineering and environmental laboratory was the third fire this year to threaten one of the nation 's nuclear facilities .
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the earlier fires , at the los alamos national laboratory in new mexico and the hanford nuclear reservation in washington , had raised concerns about the release of radioactive material , but federal officials have said there has been no danger .
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in california , evacuations were ordered as a fire blackened 37,000 acres of the sequoia national forest , creeping up to several homes on the forest 's borders friday .
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where is mesa verde national park ?
in mesa verde national park in colorado , a 40-mile fire line was keeping a 23 , 000-acre wildfire from spreading , and the park 's archaeological treasures were safe , park officials said .
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at least four fires in the wasatch-cache national forest had burned nearly 2,100 acres , and 300 firefighters were working to control it friday .
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national interagency fire center sites : http : //www. nifc . gov and http : //www. nifc . gov/news/nicc. html
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new fire forces mesa verde closure
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a wildfire at the nation 's largest archaeological preserve swelled to 3,500 acres today and was burning on a mesa near several ancient cliff dwellings .
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just 12 hours after mesa verde national park reopened to tourists yesterday after being closed for two weeks because of another wildfire , it was closed again indefinitely .
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the arrests came after courts banned the extreme-right national democratic party -lrb- npd -rrb- from holding a rally in bad berka , a resort near weimar in eastern germany , calling it a danger to public safety .
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a wildfire at the nation 's largest archaeological preserve swelled to 4,400 acres saturday and was burning on a mesa near several ancient cliff dwellings .
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saturday night , the fire was 1 / 2 miles from mesa verde 's research center , where artifacts from ancient southwest cultures are kept , and at a museum , park headquarters , and moving toward them , said dave steinke of the fire management team .
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mesa verde national park was closed indefinitely on friday , just 12 hours after it had reopened following a 10-day , 23 , 000-acre blaze .
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'' the northern rockies area is the hottest place in the country at the moment , and it 's mostly montana , '' said lynn pisano-pedigo , spokeswoman at the national interagency fire center in boise , idaho .
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across the west on saturday , about 70 large fires were burning on more than 747,100 acres , according to the national fire information center .
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more than 300 homes have been evacuated in southwestern montana 's bitterroot valley , where more than 54,000 acres of the national forest have burned .
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mesa verde national park in colorado was closed again by another rapidly spreading blaze on friday , just hours after it had reopened after a 10-day , 23 , 000-acre fire .
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in california , a 73 , 000-acre blaze that has raged near sequoia national forest was 80 percent contained saturday , freeing up firefighters and equipment to be diverted to other locations , said lee bentley , a fire information officer for the u.s. forest service .
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national fire information center : http : //www. nifc . gov
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the national interagency fire center in idaho is recruiting up to 80 people from new zealand and australia to join fire crews that already include firefighters from canada and mexico .
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in oregon , gov. john kitzhaber declared a state of emergency wednesday , allowing national guard troops to be called for firefighting duty .
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a 26 , 700-acre fire in idaho 's nez perce national forest burned along a mile and a half of the salmon river and threatened to jump the river , which is about 100 yards wide near mccall .
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in colorado 's mesa verde national park , a 5 , 000-acre fire that threatened ancient cliff dwellings was more than 50 percent contained wednesday night , and incident commander mike lohrey expected full containment friday .
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kelly shepard , a park ranger who has helped safeguard artifacts and archaeological sites in colorado 's mesa verde national park .
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grand canyon national park _ with the grand canyon as a backdrop , first lady hillary rodham clinton on wednesday launched a 73-mile network of trails designed to help end drive-by visits to arizona 's premier natural wonder .
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she visited the south rim as part of her `` save america 's treasures '' tour , which this week included a four-day swing through the southwest , with stops at flagstaff 's lowell observatory , bandelier national monument in new mexico and mesa verde national park in colorado .
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it 's part of a national tour designed to help preserve important cultural and historic sites .
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that plan , however , is contingent on the kaibab national forest trading nearly a square mile of land to canyon forest village .
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it has been endorsed by several environmental groups because water for the project will be shipped by rail and pipeline from the colorado river near the arizona - california border .
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national park service archaeologists have found both positive and negative in the situation , finding new archaeological sites and seeing increased erosion in the area .
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this year 's gathering of republicans will be philadelphia 's first national political convention since 1948 , and many residents are eager to show off the city 's revival .
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preparations are proceeding on schedule for the start of next week 's republican national convention .
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technology and timed to the 250th anniversary of bach 's death , the staatsbibliothek in berlin and six other repositories of bach manuscripts will inaugurate online access to some of the composer 's documents , scanned and digitized from high-quality color slides .
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a major entrance to yellowstone national park was closed for several days in mid-august , grand teton national park in wyoming was shrouded in smoke , and fear of wildfires kept visitors away from glacier national park in montana .
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mesa verde national park in colorado , a trove of ancient cliff dwellings and ancient anasazi artifacts , was closed twice for a total of almost three weeks before reopening aug. 14 .
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while mesa verde was closed , tauck tours of westport , conn. , rescheduled tours to aztec ruins national monument in new mexico .
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maitland , a former president of the national tour association , said that there was a falloff in early august , but that tours picked up when her company stuck to most itineraries and rescheduled others .
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designers tackle a colonial house
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mount hope farm , a colonial house in bristol , r.i. , has been chosen as the site for the newport showhouse guild 's showhouse 2000 .
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built by isaac royal in 1745 and added to in 1840 and 1890 , the four -bedroom , two -story colonial house is on the national register of historic places .
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when was the oklahoma city bombing ?
the center is a part of the oklahoma city national memorial for victims of the april 19 , 1995 , bombing of a federal building that killed 168 .
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`` this team will put together the chapters that tell a complete storyline of what happened april 19 , 1995 , '' said bob johnson , chairman of the oklahoma city national memorial foundation trust .
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the supreme court today left intact timothy mcveigh 's conviction and death sentence for the 1995 oklahoma city bombing that killed 168 people and injured hundreds more -- the worst such attack on u.s. soil .
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nichols was convicted last december of conspiring with mcveigh to use a weapon of mass destruction in the april 19 , 1995 bombing in oklahoma city , but acquitted of federal murder charges in the deaths of eight federal agents who died .
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in 1995 , in response to security concerns raised by the oklahoma city bombing , the stretch of pennsylvania avenue in front of the white house was closed to traffic .
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but many of the bomb experts working here were also involved in the investigation of the oklahoma city bombing in 1995 , in which 168 people died .
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in 1995 , amid rumors of anti-government militias and hidden caches of guns , federal and state agents combed st. mary 's and its surroundings for links to timothy j. mcveigh and terry l. nichols , who had traveled in the area just before the oklahoma city bombing .
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in ruling that he could be , the judge in the case , john s. martin jr. of u.s. district court , concluded that he did not `` perceive any substantial danger '' in allowing felipe to join in the fence talks with mcveigh , who is awaiting execution for the 1995 oklahoma city bombing that killed 168 people , or kaczynski , who is serving a life term for his deadly letter bomb campaign .
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`` people want to connect in visceral ways , and one of the ways to do this is to leave things , '' said edward t. linenthal , a professor of religion and american culture at the university of wisconsin at oshkosh , who is writing a book about the memorial to victims of the oklahoma city bombing in 1995 .
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in 1995 , after a bomb-laden truck destroyed the alfred p. murrah federal building in oklahoma city on april 19 , visitors flocked to the chain-link fence around the site .
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jon hansen , an assistant fire chief in oklahoma city , likened the scene to that of the oklahoma bombing on april 19 , 1995 : `` it looks like the murrah building , but instead of nine stories tall , it 's spread out over a large area. ''
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oklahoma city _ the deadly april 1995 bombing of the alfred p. murrah building followed by last year 's devastating tornadoes have left an image of oklahoma city as a smoking ruin inhabited by a doomed population .
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he referred to the apparently incorrect early speculation that the april 19 , 1995 bombing of a federal office building in oklahoma city might have been the work of foreign terrorists .
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washington , april 24 -lrb- xinhua -rrb- -- the prosecution today opened its case in denver against oklahoma city bombing defendant timothy mcveigh , accusing him of murdering innocent men , women and children in 1995 .
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the bombing of a federal building in oklahoma city on april 19 , 1995 , killed 168 people and injured hundreds of others .
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washington , january 5 -lrb- xinhua -rrb- -- jurors in the second trial of oklahoma bombing are scheduled to begin considering whether terry nichols should die for conspiring to carry out the oklahoma city bombing in 1995 .
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washington , september 8 -lrb- xinhua -rrb- -- a u.s. federal appeals court upheld tuesday the conviction and death sentence of timothy mcveigh for the 1995 oklahoma city bombing which killed 168 people .