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Inserted into the initial salvo of tracks from Rendezvous and 2002’s Romantica was “Slide,” a throwback to the group’s first LP Lunapark. The crowd responded positively, especially to the lines “New England has the foliage / But I’m not goin’ back,” despite the fact that the lyrics are more dismissive than praising. The joy of hearing their region name-checked by one of its semi-prodigal sons outweighed the actual message, or perhaps all that could be made...
DIED. Carlos Chavez, 79, foremost Mexican composer and conductor; of a heart ailment; in Mexico City, Chavez began by writing folk-tinged compositions (the ballet HP in 1926) and gradually embraced romanticism (Sinfoma Romantica...
...ROMANTICA BOUTIQUE...
Pietro Alessandro Yon left a most enduring impression on a Manhattan audience last week, when he dedicated the beautiful new Speyer Organ at the Town Hall. He played Mendelssohn and Bach, and introduced his own Sonata Romantica, as well as Skilton's American Indian Fantasy. The barbaric clangor of this last composition made many of his hearers forget that Yon can, when he wants to, play with such solid gravity that he has been appointed honorary organist to St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, and that he holds his active post at New York's Church...
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