Word: romanza
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...voice, let alone three. So recording companies like Universal, which issued the first Three Tenors' concert album, are plotting a different tenor-marketing strategy. Andrea Bocelli, a true crossover artist, releases a pop album for every classical disc he issues. The blind Italian's pop recording debut Romanza sold more than 3 million copies in the U.S. His recent disc of Verdi arias sold 75,000 during Christmas week alone. Yet it is difficult to shake the suspicion that his blindness has, in marketing terms, contributed to his success. Universal predictably denies it, but Bocelli is not taken seriously...
...most anticipated part of the evening was the world premiere of Donald Martino's Romanza, written especially for Schulte for this concert. The work, for solo violin, opened with extreme intervallic explorations that lead to variations that increase in intensity. As the composer wrote in the program notes, "The sets of variations at first are cast within traditional phrase-length boundaries, but as the line unfolds, these become freer and more fanciful." The three parts of the work (alternately slow, fast and slow) flowed well, and there was some obvious excellent writing, such as the one part where the violin...
Levinson demonstrated a near-perfect understanding of the music, bringing out both its seriousness and its light-hearted and playful moments. The "Romanza" felt slightly rushed--he might have lingered a little more lovingly on the beautiful opening theme, which ended up sounding rather nervous. However, when this theme was repeated toward the end of the movement, his tempo was perfect. Likewise, the orchestra achieved a more peaceful sound appropriate for the Romanza...
Died. Major General Adna Romanza Chaffee, 56, who fought for, won, and organized the U.S. Army's first Armored Force (TIME, Aug. 18); of cancer; in Boston. Son of the late Lieut. General Adna R. Chaffee, onetime Chief of Staff, he served in the St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne offensives in World War I, postulated more than a decade ago the principles of armored forces which the Germans adopted...
Horses to Tanks. Adna Romanza Chaffee began Army life as a cavalryman. He had a good reason: his father was a famous cavalryman who distinguished himself in the Spanish-American War, was Chief of Staff in 1904-06. Adna too loved horses and got to be a top Army poloist before World War I. On staff duty in France, he saw that the intense fire of machine guns and artillery had outmoded cavalry in battle zones. Unlike some cavalrymen, he took the lesson to heart, looked around for some substitute for the mobile striking power which cavalry once provided...