Word: vivaldi
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...music as forging a common emotional bond among listeners of all classes--the spreading of the ideas was more important than the actual listening. Pop classical might not convey composers' ideas in the most traditional form, but it does the job nonetheless. If someone enjoys a movement of a Vivaldi concerto on a pop classical disc, perhaps they'll want to buy a complete or "better" recording, and then perhaps they'll listen to Vivaldi's contemporaries, and perhaps later his successors. This process contributes to classical music's continuing existence; the growth of its audience, no matter how humble...
...control." The staff (actors, mostly from Germany) are nuts. They steal your bread, feed you soup, mummify you in packing tape, give you a quick shampoo. When waiters announce the fish course, beware--you will get damp! There are also fat ladies in skimpy costumes, a man who plays Vivaldi on liquor bottles, an opera singer treated rudely by the maitre d' and a food critic who can't stop complaining. "It's like eating at Denny's!" he shouts. The whole thing plays like a Teutonic Olsen and Johnson-Heilzapoppin...
...author's first New York City apartment in the 1950s was a walk-down: the "back half of a basement" with one room and a toilet down the hall. There this shy, Catholic girl from a small town in Rhode Island would sit "cross-legged on my studio couch, Vivaldi's Four Seasons on the phonograph" and feel "joy exploding in my chest. Because from this house I emerge every morning into the place my father promised would be mine one day. The place where there'd be lots of people like...
Toscanini Chamber Orchestra. Presents aconcert featuring works of Vivaldi, Haydn,Beethoven and Dvorak. Paine Concert Hall, 8 p.m.Free...
...point out that "in the real world, Americans don't always win." But the West wins small victories on Hizballah screens. "We use Western classical music with most of our productions," says Ahmad. "It's more sober than Arab singing." Which is why, between guerrilla recruitment ads, Vivaldi's Four Seasons wafts over the airwaves...