Word: piccolos
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...Rome. Piccolo Mondo, two blocks from the Via Veneto, at 39 Via Aurora. A favorite hangout of movie people, so it is tops for that great American game of celebrity watching. A typical luncheon might consist of bucatini alia a matriciana (tubes of pasta in a sauce of tomatoes and bacon), trout au gratin, and a dessert of torta St. Honore. With house wine, service and cover, the bill will come...
When the Bolshoi Opera crossed the Atlantic last year to Montreal's Expo 67, it lugged along 95 choristers, 48 soloists, 99 instrumentalists, 50 dancers, 127 staff assistants, 193 tons of scenery and five tons of Russian edibles. When Rome's Piccolo Teatro Musicale arrived in Manhattan last week, there was a little less to be seen-a handful of singers and players, one slightly overweight conductor, and a compact bundle of slats, screws and canvas that weighed scarcely more than a ton. But when the slats and canvas were screwed together into a miniature Neapolitan theater...
...though piccolo means small, the Piccolo Teatro Musicale stands for something very big in music today-a burgeoning interest in the baroque and post-baroque. Its leader, Renato Fasano, has played a pioneering role in bringing back Vivaldi and Corelli with his celebrated chamber ensemble Virtuosi di Roma. Now he is doing the same thing for the chamber operas of such composers as Paisiello, Cimarosa and Rossini...
...huffa-buffa La Cambiale di Matrimonio, Rossini's first stage work. This week the troupe will pack the show on their backs for a brief tour of the U.S. and Canada, where audiences will no doubt agree that while in North America, it is perfectly acceptable for the Piccolo Teatro Musicale to continue to do as the Romans...
Vincent Persichetti's Masquerade (1966) was the most recently composed and the most colorfully exciting offering. Beginning with a stunning passage for bassoons, saxes, and solo horn, the composition also contains a lovely oboe solo, and an evocative passage for flute, piccolo, and bass drum side. In addition, Persichetti calls for hammer and anvil, four timpani, xylophone, sizzle cymbal, ratchet, marimba sticks on suspended cymbals, and bare hands on snare drum. At the end of the composition, all these returned in a brilliant overall unity...