Word: cantilenas
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...next best thing, L'Air de Rien?a scent Miller Harris created for Jane Birkin?is available for a far saner price at the company's first U.S. outpost in New York City's Saks Fifth Avenue. And for a truly unique, over-the-top gift, an Australian company, Cantilena Music, harks back to a bygone era with a commission service for custom-created works of classical music...
...felt that only Cosima's existence kept him from suicide. On their son's first birthday she writes, "At 4:30 I am awakened by sweet sounds, R. at the piano proclaiming to me the hour of birth." He would sing to her as she worked, a cantilena from / Puritani, a melody of Beethoven. He cared about his three children, happily pitching in and cutting toenails...
...which Verdi concludes the second act - a moment of grand confrontation in which every body perceives everybody else's seeming treachery. Or to find that Verdi has rarely written anything lovelier than Elena's farewell to Arrigo, "Ah, parli a un core." Spinning out its delicately chromatic cantilena like the mistress of cantabile that she is, Soprano Caballe stopped the show for a full two minutes and 45 seconds. The applause ceased only when Caballe held up a palm and signaled Levine to continue...
...eclectic music was Michael Friedmann's Leuchten, a "work in progress" for four players. I hope the work progresses considerably because in its present pseudo-Webernian condition it seems unimaginative in the extreme and generally unredeemable. Janice Hamer's String Trio, while stronger, suffers from repetitive alternation between cantilena and pizzicato writing...
FRANCIS POULENC: SEXTET FOR PIANO AND WINDS (Angel). Prokofiev-like flashes of wit and tipsy abandon brighten the sextet, while the Sonata for Flute and Piano sets afloat a dreamy cantilena, then juggles flashy melodic fragments into thin air, Michel Debost lightly plays the lyrical flute; Jacques Fevrier is the pianist with him and with the Paris Wind Quintet...