Word: rondeau
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Angel.) As musical forms go, the Baroque suite or partita was in its old age when Bach decided to have the final word on the subject. He not only included every kind of dance movement previously used (saraband, gigue, minuet) but also introduced some that had not been: capriccio, rondeau and scherzo. The French style of ornamentation, so essential a part of this music, is something Harpsichordist Igor Kipnis has long since mastered. His mordents, appoggiaturas and other embellishments have the ring not of frivolity but, as is proper, indispensability. The overall interpretations have a breadth and power not often...
Pinched Nerve. At first his complaint was the selection of a referee. Foreman wanted Jim Rondeau, an experienced American. Norton and the Venezuelan fight officials demanded a local referee. Like a traveling circus, representatives of the two fighters and boxing officials dashed from hotel to hotel in Caracas, holding meetings that did little to resolve the dispute and press conferences that did much to exacerbate...
When the controversy was still unsettled on the day of the fight, Foreman developed a "pinched nerve" in his knee. He was rushed to the hospital amid increasing rumors that the fight would be canceled. Meanwhile, Foreman's camp was announcing that Rondeau was not the referee it wanted after all. "This is a vicious doublecross against us," Norton's manager first declared. Then he turned the tables himself and insisted that Rondeau be in the ring...
...half full by fight time. Nor should it have really been a surprise when Foreman walked in without the slightest trace of a limp. (He attributed his recovery to prayer.) Score Round 1 in the psychological fight to Foreman. Norton seemed to sense that he had been outmaneuvered. As Rondeau briefed the fighters at mid-ring, Norton carefully avoided Foreman's menacing glare by staring at the canvas...
...second round he landed one below Norton's heart. "I heard him grunt," said Foreman later, "and I knew I had him." He finished the challenger with a volley of uppercuts and right-left combinations to the head. As Norton collapsed onto the ropes for the third time, Rondeau ended the fight...