Word: ceneventola
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...Philharmonic gave Manhattan an earful of Gioachino Antonio Rossini's rare Petite Messe Solennelle (Little Solemn Mass), which is neither little nor solemn. The Mass took almost two hours to perform, was full of the impish but not impious gaiety of Rossini's comic operas (Ceneventola, The Barber of Seville). Rossini, one of the laziest and wittiest of all composers, wrote his Solemn Mass in 1863 at the age of 71, called it his "last mortal sin," marked one passage Allegro Cristiano (quick but Christian), confessed he did not know whether it was "musique sacr...
Arturo Toscanini (Sat. 10 p.m., NBC-Blue) conducts the NBC Symphony Orchestra in Richard Strauss's Don Quixote, Gioachino Antonio Rossini's Ceneventola, Ludwig van Beethoven's Fifth Symphony...
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