Word: mio
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...story line follows a young man, Mio, the son of an anarchist executed for a murder he did not commit. Fate brings him to New York, seeking to clear his father's name. Who does he fall in love with but the sweet young sister of a witness to the murder who refuses to speak out and is being strong-armed by the actual killer, lately out of the joint...
...Choate comes close to saving the show with an electric performance as Mio, the embittered young man tormented by the shadow of his father's humiliation. Choate rather easily dominates every scene he is in. He has an easy well-modulated voice and the timing and movement of an experienced actor. He is at his best taunting a classically idiotic Irish cop (James P. Horan) in a near-melee in the first act, or raging against the Judge who presided over his father's trial in a scene that crackles with emotion...
...recall dozens of small shop owners and other individuals telling me in early 1948, when queried about the possibility of a Communist victory, "ho paura nel mio cuore " (I have fear in my heart). What has changed to diminish that? I doubt that anything has among all those bright Italians...
...encompasses Schumann's playful duet Das Glück as well as Chausson's haunting Chanson Perpetuelle, sung with grave beauty by Von Stade. Blegen's supple trills whirl with Gerard Schwarz's bright trumpet through Alessandro Scarlatti's aria Se geloso e il mio core...
...remaining four on the West's University division squad are goaltender Ed. Mio of Colorado College, defenseman Brian Engborn of Wisconsin, and forwards Bob D'Avise from Michigan Tech and Tom Ross of Michigan State...