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Bavicchi's Sonata for violin and Piano (1956) received a well-nigh definitive performance at the hands of Ayrton Pinto and Jacqueline Young. The three movement work is admirably written from the stand point of idiomatic instrumental technique. But the outside movements, despite their fast tempo and apparent busyness, indulged in series of effects and cliches, with a resulting lack of cohesion; the finale seemed to be a chain of rousing stretta-like conclusions without a beginning or a middle. Slow movements are normally a major stumbling block for modern composers, even the established ones, but here Bavicchi had much...
...clean drawer paper under him." There is a smart lad called Red Cheeks, who has been taught by experience that it is futile to drop snowballs down chimneys because they only "get stuck in the bend," whereas a bucketful of water meets with no such obstacle. There is Tutor Pinto Free man, who would have been a good educator had he not believed passionately that "all education is a fraud"; he is always uttering loud groans and hurrying "to the coat cupboard, where he kept a medicine bottle of whisky." And there is Mr. Mackee, a familiar figure in most...
...September, Roseann Pinto, 14, and two parochial school classmates in West Philadelphia came home to their families with an exciting story. The Virgin Mary, the girls said, had appeared to them in a vision while they were sitting on a bench in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park. They added that the Virgin was wearing a white gown and a bluish veil, and "vanished'.' almost instantly. Rumor spread that she had promised to return on the last Sunday in October...
...jumpy with incessant propaganda and occasional bombings, is hunted day and night, seldom sleeps twice in the same place. Within the last nine months, one A.D. chief was killed, another died in prison, and a third was jailed. Last week the fourth, a 35-year-old economist named Antonio Pinto Salinas, was shot to death by Pérez Jiménez' cops...
...Pinto devotes seven chapters to actual cases, including his exposure of "King Kong," a legendary hero of the early Dutch Resistance who later became a Nazi agent. But his accounts of spy-catching methods are almost more intriguing than his practice of them, and his book is full of handy suggestions...