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...speedy and complex improvisation from Rosenwinkel’s guitar. “Deserted Floor” begins much more like a traditional blues song—slower, with a heavier bassline—but then progresses into a more contemporary sounding composition. In “Casa Oscura,” the album reaches its peak—Turner’s saxophone and Rosenwinkel’s guitar effortlesslyfuse to form one broad, rich sound and then seamlessly break away from one another to trade off jams in an interesting musical dialogue...
...doing so disproves the theory that a singer who loses much weight loses vocal beauty. The voice is in lustrous condition. Pavarotti gave a virile E lucevan le stelle from Tosca, an aria that is often more wept than sung. He took on Beethoven's In questa tomba oscura, an unyielding piece, though a war-horse of recital repertory. In the last two bitter words, ingrata, ingrata, he showed how a bold singer with operatic instincts can bring pathos to the whole song. Perhaps the most perfect, if not the most ambitious number was Tosti's limpid Ideale...
Over the past three years, he has been collaborating on Milton's Of Reformation. "That ought to be out any century now; it's one of those things built for fifty years." Alfred has published in Hudsons, Commonwealth, and next fall his Agammenon will appear in Botega Oscura. "I disagree with people who say you shouldn't publish until you have a matured expresson. You can learn a lot from the shock of seeing your own stuff on a printed page...
...feel that I have emerged from the Selva Oscura [gloomy wood]. If I should have the good fortune to live 25 years longer I hope to come much nearer to my goal...
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