Word: molto
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...picture a stream of cameos in which I bring celebrity chefs resoundingly down to earth. I'd make Emeril Lagasse do the dishes. (What happens to the ones he dirties so exuberantly in the studio? Does he throw them all away? BAM!) When chef Mario Batali visits--that's "Molto Mario," of Food Network fame--he'd better bring a mop. I tried his advice to let food fall on a plate "like windblown Zen mastery," and it fell on the floor...
Also worthy of esteem was the Autumn Adagio Molto, with the rich initial phrasing of the baroque guitar played with bravura by Olav Chris Henriksen. With Gibbon's rhythmic, plucking continuo, the music lulled guests into imaginary dulcet slumber. During the Allegro, the orchestra, which had been struggling a bit at first with dynamics and synchronicity, finally gelled and the harpsichord rocked along, tying the ends together splendidly...
...worry too much about the the bleak mid-winter reading period just around the corner--drank up the Allegro Non Molto from the Summer concerto and imagine yourselves languishing in the July heat on an Italian beach, instead of holed up in a dorm room on the banks of the Charles. Let Vivaldi work his magic...
...Adagio molto, Allafranchini supplied enough mugging at the audience for the entire concert. Perhaps this practice, not shared by the Borromeo's other members, prevented the movement from obtaining its proper introspective feel...
...last movement, marked Allegro molto vivace, alternates between two sections. The Borromeo's execution of the first recalled the sparkling bounce of the Haydn; the second possessed dignity and fitting selfassurance. Here, the Quartet's firm statements carried just the right exuberance through the finale...