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Coming from a land where the stones sometimes seem to sing, Rugantino is musically underprivileged, except for a couple of lilting serenades, Ciumachella and Roma. By U.S. standards, the dance numbers are unsophisticated, but one carnival scene with masks and harle quins manages to echo commedia dell'arte. Rugantino's appeal is that it is smilingly content to woo an audience rather than...
Enduring Trace. Unlike the unnatural sugar-dolls of lesser rococo porcelain artists, Bustelli's figurines show a keen eye for the actual. Especially prized in his own time was his 16-piece series of figures from the commedia dell' arte, the endless, semi-improvised popular comedy in which stock characters mimicked Europe's manners and morals, and lack of them (see color). There was Il Dottore, the gulled pedant; Mezzetino, the capering servant; Octavio, the youthful courtier; Scaramouche, the blustering rogue. Bustelli placed them in theatrical stances on curvilinear pedestals that swept up in rococo curlicues...
Paul VI began following the path blazed by John with his very first actions as Pope. He renamed John's old friend Amleto Cicognani as the Vatican's Secretary of State, and Monsignor Angelo Dell'Acqua as Substitute Secretary. The new Pope descended to the grotto beneath St. Peter's to pray by the side of his predecessor's tomb. And in the spirit of John's footloose ways, Paul VI left the Vatican the day after his election-to visit Spain's ailing primate, Enrique Cardinal Pla y Deniel...
...much the classicists have tried, the collision of jazz idiom and classical technique has been mainly the work of jazzmen. Dave Brubeck has been an ardent explorer of quiet waters, but the classic case of the Juilliard blues afflicts John Lewis, whose fascination with the baroque and the commedia dell' arte has led his Modern Jazz Quartet into music of great cerebration and even greater anemia. Lewis' music often seems too fragile even to be called jazz; but now a new group of jazz composers has arrived with the claim that they are uniquely "serious"-a priggish...
...Cobb this fantastically hyperthyroid oat is only tenuously based on Owen null novel. The background is beautifully filmed in Wyoming in color, and, true enough, the dialogue rings. But the stories could happen in Flatbush, Beirut, or Port of Spain. A real western is an American commedia dell' arte, a stylized and inviolable cliche that is easily destroyed by subtlety and depth psychology...