Word: pina
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nonetheless, the Harvard Summer School concert last week provided an example of last century's understanding of Bach. Pina Carmirelli, in a long black, sequined dress, exemplified the Romantic spirit in her performance. During the Bach violin-piano sonata in E minor, she presented one of the last Romantic interpretations of Bach. Schweitzer thinks that the sonata is unplayable today. He says that is can be played on a harpsichord and a violin with loosened bow to bring out the full flavor of the double-stopping. Wagner felt that the timber of the violin and the piano are naturally incompatible...
...Monday Night Concert Series--Pina Carmirelli, violinist, and Luis Battle, pianist. Tickets at Loeb Drama Center. Admission charge...
Along with his cards, Adolfo unconsciously reveals his character, and it is not a pretty sight. He is a scared little man who compensates his fear with dreary little vices. As he gets the financial picture, his watery eyes gleam with greed, and he assumes a proprietary air. When Pina leaves the room, he arrogantly rearranges some furniture, carelessly cracks a glass lampshade, slyly turns the crack to the wall...
After a few stiff drinks, he kicks the turtle and punches the parrot for pure cussedness-like a bad boy just begging for a beating. When he doesn't get one, he gives the old girl a lusty whack on what follows her around. Poor Pina, delighted to have a man around the house, mistakes insult for interest. But after Adolfo gratuitously sneers at her friends ("I'm a cut above the lot of you") and falls down drunk in her backyard, Pina's patience runs out, and she tells him what a useless mess...
Written, directed and performed with taste, La Visita has something deep to say about the walls people build around themselves and the pain that lives inside. In the simple story of Pina and Adolfo can be traced the complex process that transforms the tie that binds into the bind that ties and causes all the other-hood...