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DIED. DON TOSTI, 81, hard-driving bandleader who inspired a Latin-music craze in the '40s with the tune Pachuco Boogie; in Palm Springs, Calif. Originally a violinist for the El Paso Symphony, he played bass in jazz combos led by Jimmy Dorsey and Jack Teagarden. But it was his fusion of boogie, blues, swing and Latin beats that propelled him to become the first Latin artist to sell a million records...
...GameCube's capabilities is LucasArts' Rogue Squadron II. Replicating the climactic canyon-run sequence in Star Wars, designers created a Death Star that looked embarrassingly more realistic than the 1977 movie model. "I thought, 'My God, I hope Lucasfilm doesn't get mad at us,'" says director Brett Tosti. To save George Lucas' blushes, the virtual version has been fixed to look as plastic as the original...
...Italian Love Songs from the Turn of the Century. Donaudy. Tosti. Denza. Cardillo. Dig it. Fogg Museum Courtyard...
...Massachusetts Municipal Association, which represents the collective interests of all of the cities and towns, had a similar assessment of the aid's significance. The funding is enough to allow most towns to maintain the status quo by providing, the same level of services as last year, Allan Tosti, the association's fiscal analyst, said earlier this week...
...questa tomba oscura, an unyielding piece, though a war-horse of recital repertory. In the last two bitter words, ingrata, ingrata, he showed how a bold singer with operatic instincts can bring pathos to the whole song. Perhaps the most perfect, if not the most ambitious number was Tosti's limpid Ideale. In the heavenly cantoria, one could picture Beniamino Gigli and Tito Schipa nodding paternally, John McCormack consulting the universal genealogy to see if Pavarotti has any Irish blood. He has been compared with these tenors and many more, including Caruso. None is quite right. Pavarotti is himself...