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...Barber, written by Rossini in 1816, comes after Figaro chronologically, but the action of the play is a prelude to that of the Mozart opera. In his role as Don Basilio, Gill will be called on to sing one of the most memorable parts of the opera, the "calumny" aria...
...series of recordings that were like valentines to each other. Here are five of them: Brahms' Tragic Overture, Beethoven's Leonore Overture No. 1, the Weber-Berlioz Invitation to the Dance and, for the first time on American LP, Mozart's Magic Flute Overture and Rossini's La Scala di Seta Overture. As usual, the maestro's familiar musical gusto is the controlling factor, augmented by the expressive freedom he accorded the BBC first-desk men in their solo work. There is also a certain pervasive ease and serenity not always foud in Toscanini...
...performers and the program would be. The Chamber Players include some fine instrumentalists, among them flautist Doriot Anthony Dwyer, clarinetist Harold Wright, trumpeter Armando Ghitalla, and horn player James Stagliano. The programs, decided on co-operatively by the entire group, are diverse: this Sunday, the group will do a Rossini Quartet for Strings, Piston's Woodwind Quintet, and the Schubert Octet...
Confetti, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is, among other things, a "plaster bonbon." The definition is cruelly apt as a description of Gerald Arpino's creation, which turns three couples loose to the overture of Rossini's Semiramide. Arpino's brilliant passages of dance invention and his dancers' great innovative skills leave the music behind. The ballet becomes a mere gymnastic feat. Solarwind is different-not a confection gone slickly sour but a modish sci-fi convention pursued without rhyme or reason. In a cosmic mood, Arpino sends his dancers blasting around the stage...
...Symphonies Nos. 88 and 104, Strauss's Ein Heldenleben, all NBC Symphony broadcasts dating from the late 1930s or early 1940s. This year's batch will include Sibelius' Symphony No. 4, Mendelssohn's "Scotch" Symphony, dating from the same NBC period; and a Rossini-Verdi-Puccini LP emanating from the post-World War II reopening of La Scala on May 11, 1946 with the Maestro conducting...