Word: passione
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Woody directs the HGC-RCS and Munch directs the BSO in a superlative performance of Bach's St. Matthew Passion at 8:30 this evening. At not quite the other end of the musical spectrum Dizzy Gillespie draws crowds at Storyville...
...Bronx. He remembers everything-even sometimes how things really are in working-class life in the big city. He remembers concretely, with photographic eye and phonographic ear. Yet his memories seem to move him -and his audiences-in inverse proportion to their importance. He is a minusculist, with a passion for the little ideas and the Little People-apparently not so much because they are people as because they are little. But for all that, Author Chayefsky has a metropolitan instinct as keen as a pigeon's, and an old cab driver's mystical sense of the city...
...Tonio with vacuous smile as a simpleton rather than a physical cripple, Warren shot the role full of pity which honed rather than blunted its edge of evil. In his great self-revelatory aria ("I know I'm deformed and ugly"), his mahogany-hued voice soared with a passion and authority that no other baritone today can top. Not even the beloved Vesti la giubba (sung by Italian Tenor Mario Ortica as Canio) got a bigger hand. All in all, last week's "routine" performances were perhaps a better measure of the Met's real stature than...
...sadly lacking. The show did not take place in a cellar with the lights turned out. Nobody ate matches, meowed or loudly counted the pearls of visiting dowagers. No Dadaist proclaimed to the public: "Before going down among you to pull out your decaying teeth, before shellacking you with passion, we warn you: we are murderers." There weren't even any fights...
term for my passion; There's not a sweetheart in town I'd be reluctant to love...