Word: cavatina
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...universal ballads like You're Still the One and exuberant up-tempo tunes like Man! I Feel Like a Woman! that start with synth fanfares and cowbells and end--usually 3 1/2 minutes later--with a giddy repetition of oooh-yeah!s and uh-huh!s over a cavatina of power chords, leaving listeners with the wonderfully woozy feeling of having just eaten a bale of cotton candy while watching a Jerry Bruckheimer movie during a roller-coaster ride...
...form with glee. The setting is an outlandish reception at the Turkish embassy, presided over by a 12-ft. foam pasha from whose mail-slot mouth a bass voice emerges. As the sultry singer Samira, mezzo Marilyn Horne reclines lasciviously on a plushy couch and tosses off a florid cavatina and cabaletta to words from an Arabic phrase book ("I am in a valley, and you are in a valley . . ."). It's diverting and spectacular in a rather sweet, good-humored way. And that, despite the dark shadow of the guillotine, is the prevailing mood of Ghosts and the reason...
...most brilliant lines of the translation: describing Cherubino's leap from a window, he testifies, "I'm sure that he wasn't on horseback, for no horse from the window came down." But of all the minor roles, Juliet Cunningham's Barbarina was best. Her fourth act cavatina ("I'ho perduta, me meschina") had just the right touch of girlish dolefulness...
...Stuyvesant Quartet-four NBC Symphony men-leaned on the famed Tschaikowsky Andante Cantabile. When the New Friends recorded the piece with an enlarged ensemble, they named it Droshky Drag. They retagged other classics Bach Bay Blues, Shoot the Schubert to Me, Hubert (ballet music from Rosamunde), Riffin' Raff (Cavatina by Raff). The Overture to Mozart's Marriage of Figaro (he was a barber) became Barber's Hitch; Stephen Foster's Old Black Joe, Foster Chile'. Since last August, New Friends six recordings have tidily sold 20,000 copies...
...program for this evening's concert is as follows: I. Crucifixus Bach We Praise Thee Schvedov Tenebrae Factae Sunt Palestrina The Harvard Glee Club II. Invocazione di Orfeo Jacopo Peri Cavatina: "Vieni che poi sereno," from "Semiramide" Gluck The Mermaid's Song Haydn Mit deinen blauen Augen Strauss Elfenlied Wolf Bei dir sind meine Gedanken Brahms O liebliche Wangen Brahms Mme. Homer III. Fire, Fire, My Heart Morley Rhapsody Brahms (Contralto solo by Mme. Homer) Russian Folk Songs. Song of the Lifeboat Men Fireflies At Father's Door Drake's Drum Coleridge Taylor The Harvard Glee Club...