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Zandonai's failure was primarily due to the lack of a strong individual style. For all its harmonic piquancies and orchestral sleight of hand, the score of Francesca sounds derivative-a touch of Puccini, a sprinkle of Debussy, a pinch of Wagner. Further, it lacks a single memorable melody, the essential ingredient that keeps a relic like Francesco Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur on the boards. Its plot, however, is operatic gold. Based on a play by Gabriele d'Annunzio, it recounts an episode from Dante's Inferno. Francesca (Soprano Renata Scotto) is tricked into marrying...
...scores for composition or technical merit. They did it despite choosing music, Ravel's Bolero, that does not contain a change of tempo, supposedly a requirement. But to Torvill and Dean, ice dancing is much more than a Roseland medley of a dash of tango, a pinch of waltz, then up and out with some fancy polka footwork. In place of the rules, they offered an idea: music as movement, not scaffolding; skating as expression, not simply virtuosic display...
From Paris to Bonn, from London to Rome, the reaction was immediate: a touch of pique, a dash of perplexity and a pinch of barely controlled anger. "It doesn't help us achieve a clearer under-standing of each other's problems, does it?" asked a British official. A diplomat in Bonn called it "unfortunate, ill tuned and wrong." Said an Italian official: "We were rather surprised. We would like to react, but it is wiser that...
...believe that peaceful change can only come through some economic inconveniences; a pinch in the pocket that everyone will feel will move many to think about real change. Dr. Leila L. Bronner Asseclate Professor Witwatersand University Johannesburg SA Visiting Research Fellow Harvard NELC
...either." Baltimore won the fifth game too, 5-4, again with scant help from its finest player, Eddie Murray. He and Mike Schmidt wore the same frown. (All statistics will be rendered meaningless at the outset of World War III.) The Orioles had unloaded their supply of pinch hitters all at once. (If everybody feels they're somebody, you end up with a team on the bench as good as the one on the field...