Word: gesualdo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Boston Camerata, directed by Joel Cohen, will present Cupid Victorius, music of the Italian Renaissance, in Sanders Theatre at 8:30 pm. The concert will include music by Cipriano, Marenzio, Gesualdo and Gestoldi and readings of Italian love poetry by Nicholas Linfield of the Boston Lunchtime Theatre. Tickets are $5 and $3.50 at the Jordan Hall Box Office and at Strawberries II in Cambridge but rush tickets, at the door only, are available for $1.50. For more information call...
...Joseph Gesualdo was angry. A veteran hoodlum facing murder and robbery charges resulting from a holdup in Long Beach, Calif., he had decided to dispense with a lawyer and conduct his own defense. After losing one ruling after another on the admissibility of evidence, Gesualdo gave up in disgust and announced he was resting his case. "What do you want to do with the remainder of your exhibits?" inquired the judge. Gesualdo shot back: "Give them to the Salvation Army...
...Gesualdo had the U.S. Supreme Court to blame for his difficulties. In the past, an accused criminal wishing to be his own lawyer-to act pro se, in legal terminology-had to convince a judge that he was competent to do the job. But in 1975 the Supreme Court held that the guaranteed right to counsel includes the defendant's right to be his own lawyer. Ruling in Faretta v. California, which concerned a man convicted of auto theft after his plea to defend himself had been denied, the high court said that Anthony Faretta should be retried...
...California trial of Joseph Gesualdo, the judge allowed the lawyer-defendant to reconsider his abandonment of the case-a privilege that probably would not have been granted to an experienced attorney. But Gesualdo continued to encounter difficulties. He recalled a witness to emphasize the man's inability to identify him; the witness suddenly changed his mind and decided he did indeed remember him. Some courtroom observers thought Gesualdo might have obtained at least a hung jury if he had retained a lawyer clever enough to exploit weaknesses in the evidence against him. But after deliberating 50 minutes, the jury...
Dunster House Music Society presents Kletzsh's "Gesualdo," a short musical play for baritone and violin (performed by the composer) and Bach's "Art of the Fugue," with Margaret Dusenberry (violin), Konrad von und zu Tilleysburg (viola), Aideen Zeitlin (violin), and Peter Belmont (cello). Dunster House Library. 3 p.m. Free...