Word: rossini
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drew only one personal foul, though he played all but the final 45 seconds. If he had not been suffering from an injured back, Robertson might have eclipsed his own Madison Square Garden scoring record of 56 points, made last year against Seton Hall. Said N.Y.U. Coach Lou Rossini ruefully: "He's as great a basketball player as I've ever seen. I guess the only way to stop him would be to put four men on him and let one guy cover the other four...
These two scenes make up most of the second half of the evening and are well worth a trip into Boston. The specific vehicle for all this comedy is Rossini's opera Count Ory (given with only a few small cuts), and its agents are the members of the New England Opera Theatre, of which the indefatigable Boris Goldovsky is artistic director...
...written in a couple of weeks in 1828, is Rossini's penultimate operatic work. He wrote one more opera the next year; and, having reached the Shakespeareanly canonical number of 37 stage works, he suddenly renounced opera writing, coincidentally at the age of 37, and never composed another stage work during the rest of his long life...
...Rossini was at the height of his powers when he wrote Ory. Frankly, I am not an ardent admirer of Rossini; and this work shows many of his weaknesses, such as poverty-stricken harmony and overly square phraseology. The libretto is scarcely more than adequate--Rossini himself used to say he needed nothing better than a laundry list...
Still, in the last "official" census among scholars for the most eminent composers of all time, Rossini tied with Benjamin Britten for 59th place; and that isn't doing badly at all. Certainly, one must grant that Rossini had a great talent for melody and for using the human voice superbly (he was a fine professional singer himself). He also knew how to score well for orchestra; no other work of Rossini is orchestrated with such elegance and nuance as Ory. And the bedroom trio in Act II is inspired writing of the first order; Berlioz was quite right...