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Martins' Capriccio Italien is a pastiche of typical Italian images, from the bejeweled aristocrats to the bouncy peasants...
...years from underexposure. Yet here are four tone poems that most Tchaikovsky buffs will not know. The Storm is windy stuff at best and deserves its obscurity. But Fatum (Fate) and The Voyevode have an orchestral touch and programmatic flair that approach the popular 1812 Overture and Capriccio Italien. And The Tempest, written four years after Romeo and Juliet, is one of the composer's grandest scores. Conductor Inbal, an Israeli now in his second year as head of the Frankfurt Radio Symphony, puts it all into a surging dramatic frame...
...Naples, she has within her the blood of the Saracens, Spaniards, Normans, Byzantines and Greeks. The East appears in her slanting eyes. Her dark brown hair is a bazaar of rare silk. Her legs talk. In her impish, ribald Neapolitan laughter, she epitomizes the Capriccio Italien that Tchaikovsky must have had in mind. Lord Byron, in her honor, probably sits up in his grave about once a week and rededicates his homage to "Italia! oh, Italia! thou who hast the fatal gift of beauty." Vogue Magazine once fell to its skinny knees and abjectly admitted: "After Loren, bones are boring...
...afternoon of April 15, 1920, two men shot and killed a paymaster and a company guard in the course of a $16,000 payroll robbery in South Braintree, Massachusetts. More than seven years later, two Italien aliens named Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were electrocuted for this crime, following one of the longest and most sensational cases in the history of American criminal law. The Sacco-Vanzetti ease aroused violent popular feeling all over the world. For years the liberal and radical elements of America and Europe were engaged in a roaring battle of words with the judiciary and administration...
...great Cardinal did these things, Carl J. Burckhardt's book described brilliantly this week. Carl Burckhardt is a Swiss and grandson of Historian Jakob Burckhardt, famed author of Die Kultur der Renaissance in Italien. Before the Nazi Gleichschaltung, Biographer Burckhardt was League of Nations High Commissioner for Danzig. To the writing of 17th-Century history he brings an unusual firsthand knowledge of 20th-century practical politics. He also brings a keen grasp of the political mind, a powerful prose style. He uses them for a kind of historical writing in which, instead of reading history, the reader seems...