Word: antonios
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...VIRTUOSO FLUTE (Antonio Janigro conducting I Solisti di Zagreb; Vanguard). Cleveland-born Julius Baker plays the Telemann Suite in A Minor for Flute and Strings in sensitive partnership with the chamber ensemble of soloists from Zagreb. Telemann gives the flute seven chances to preen and prance beside the violins, in an Italian air, some minuets, a polonaise...
Chary of overdoing trial scenes, Shakespeare made them as airtight as a Supreme Court brief-perhaps most notably in The Merchant of Venice. At issue is Shylock's 3,000-ducat loan to Antonio, who borrowed the money to help Bassanio sue for Portia's hand. If Antonio fails to repay in three months, says Shylock...
Flesh v. Blood. Unable to pay on time, Antonio is haled before the Duke's court in Venice, where Shylock, refusing even 6,000 ducats, insists upon the letter of the bond, a pound of flesh to be sliced off Antonio's breast. The law's the law-the hard English common law with no mercy for a laggard debtor...
...learned Portia, disguised as a lawyer defending Antonio, offers a remedy in her "quality of mercy" speech-the unfolding principle of equity, which the English courts were more and more applying in Shakespeare's day to ease cases of special hardship. As Shylock stands over Antonio, knife in hand, Portia says...
...revolutionary-which he was not-and gave rise to a Lorca cult that did him no service by drawing attention away from his works and for cusing it on his life. He was, in fact, a lyric poet of great talent-although many critics would argue that either Antonio Machado or Miguel Hernandez among his contemporaries was a finer writer. Lorca was a romantic, and what he restored to the literature of Spain was the tragic vision that Cervantes understood and that left Hemingway mesmerized. "It is Spanish," said Actress Aurora Bautista of Lorca's greatest play, Yerma...