Word: lente
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...centenary of the composer's death, Schippers spent months scouring the operatic dustbins of Europe and the U.S. for a workable score of The Siege. He finally discovered a copy of the original Naples version among some old manuscripts in the Library of Congress. A French publisher lent him fragments of Rossini's orchestration for the first Paris performance. The Rossini library in Pesaro, Italy, the composer's home town, produced a score of the initial La Scala production. Schippers took what seemed to him the best music from each of these versions, including a breathtakingly difficult...
...Mime Troupe began their performance with a rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner," to which the omnipresent "Polish Freedom Fighter" lent his lusty baritone when he felt they were doing it less than justice. They followed it with several gutter puppet shows, and a skit satirizing the press...
...though lacking in originality, still are quite wonderful in themselves. A girl named Shelley Plimpton, who has a voice laced with clear-toned innocence, sings a ballad about Frank Mills, a boy who "wears his hair tied in a small bow in the back." It seems that Miss Plimpton lent two dollars to Frank after meeting him in front of the Waverley and then never saw him again--and now she loves him. It captures a teeny-bopper's romantic vision with an appropriate unembellished lyricism...
...samba. There are no politics to carnaval, and no Brazilian government-however tough-minded-would dare deny its people their great annual excursion into tun and fantasy (see box following page). Yet there is a slightly unreal air to Brazil this week, as carnaval dances toward its pre-Lent climax. Since the military crackdown last December, Brazilians have had to put up with a tough, moralistic, even prudish regime. While revelers are putting the final touches on their colorful fantasias, the stunning costumes that give carnaval its color, the dour government of President Arthur da Costa e Silva continues...
Carnaval is not so much a time to prepare for Lent and deny earthly pleasure as it is an opportunity to realize romantic ambitions. It is the one time when a person is permitted to work out his sex problems in his own fashion. He finds a new love, or dances with a woman he has loved from afar. There's even a word for it: namoro de carnaval, or carnival affair. A frustrated husband can finally go out and dance with young girls. Young bachelors can find girls to fall in love with. There are so many amorous...