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Coming to a stop in his two decade-old Fiat, Bologna social worker Claudio cut the ignition and yanked up the emergency break. "Get ready," he said. It was January 2007, and as part of my reporting for an article on immigration I was about to meet some 15 Roma families who'd emigrated from the former Yugoslavia in the early 1990s. Claudio's warning was partly to prepare me for the rough conditions - rusting doors and walls, leaking pipes, power cuts - that I would encounter over the next hour as the longtime city caseworker showed me around the fenced...
...also designed to brace me for a human situation that is far more complicated than your typical residents' gripes over municipal services or talk-show outrage about minority rights. And different than the other immigration stories I was seeing. Get ready, Claudio seemed to be saying, to be both appalled and surprised...
...going to play the Green Hornet. What makes you qualified to play a superhero? Claudio Paone, BOSTON...
...just a master crime fighter. But what makes me qualified to play one? I don't know. I've acted in movies before. I am an actor. I guess that instantly makes me qualified. I read a lot of comic books, so I think that helps. Man, Claudio really has an attitude problem...
...appoggiatura and a semiquaver.) Yes, some of the runs in the ''Emperor'' are a bit mussy, but the pianist's earnest approach is informed by a proprietary affection for music. Schnabel's Beethoven doesn't smile very much, but then icons never do. + Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 (''Emperor''). Claudio Arrau, piano, with Sir Colin Davis conducting the Staatskapelle Dresden (Philips). The pedagogical grandson of Liszt (through his teacher in Berlin, Martin Krause), Arrau, 83, is equally at home in the Transcendental Etudes, the Brahms sonatas and the Beethoven concertos, lavishing on each his pellucid tone and his hardy technique...