Word: capriccios
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...lunch, Via Veneto troops off to the Capriccio, where Ingrid Bergman, Gloria Swanson or Marta Toren may be sighted among a scattering of princelings, or the Colony Club, run by an Italian-American from Long Island who features hamburgers, chili con carne and "Mrs. Wagner's baked beans," all recipes drawn from Macy's Cooking Encyclopedia...
...podium and began to orate: " 'Tis not for children, not for gods, this play; for understanding people 'tis designed . . ." Finally, Conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos appeared and gave the downbeat, and the perplexed audience settled down to the first U.S. performance of Ferruccio Busoni's "theatrical capriccio," Harlequin...
...Capriccio Brillant (by George Balanchine; music by Mendelssohn) is an elegant bit of fluff designed mainly for Balanchine's top dancers, Maria Tallchief and André Eglevsky, who present a brisk, polished "improvisation" on the music...
...Paris in 1775, Capriccio concerns a poet and a musician, each insistent on his own primary importance. They both court a widowed countess, ask her to make her choice. Her pat decision: she has no right to take either because they belong together...
Composer Strauss had had more fun, in fact, than most in the slightly baffled audience. But most critics agreed that Capriccio, though a masterpiece of its kind, was too sophisticated ever to attain the popularity of earlier Strauss works...