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Using an English version of the Italian original (adapted by Daniel Pippin), the DHO has managed to put on Gioachino Rossini’s famous 1817 opera with both aplomb and creativity. Pippin’s clever English rendition doubtlessly makes the opera much more accessible to those not already enamored with the art form...
...Prix de Rome committee. It was rejected with a scolding from one of the judges, who said, "You refuse to write like everybody else. Even your rhythms are new. You would invent new modulations if such a thing were possible." The story goes that when Gioachino Rossini was shown Berlioz' score for the Symphonic Fantastique, he examined it for five minutes and said, "Thank goodness, this isn't music!" Recently Pierre Boulez complained, only half in jest, that Berlioz "has only got two chords...
...John Barbirolli, conductor of the New York Philharmonic, who is not generally considered a magician so far as programs are concerned, pulled an exciting Easter rabbit out of his hat. Assisted by the young, well-trained Westminster Choir of Princeton, N. J., the 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...
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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