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Operatic Tenor Giovanni Martinelli is a gourmet. Day after a delicious late supper of crab meat, the 52-year-old singer felt somewhat queasy, but did not allow his feelings to interfere with his duty: a matinee of Aida at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera. But in the famed aria "Celeste Aida," Martinelli began edging toward the wings, speeding up the aria's sluggish phrases. In the shadow of the wings he collapsed of indigestion. Next morning the New York Herald Tribune printed a column of Martinelli's hints on Italian food...
...Small, barrel-chested Baritone Carlo Tagliabue of Milan's La Scala appropriately strutted the proscenium as Ethiopia's Ras Amonasro in Aida. Looking club-footed in high-heeled stage shoes, Mr. Tagliabue was not so bad that the critics had to boo him. But Gina Cigna (Aida) sang more than one of her Numi Pietàs a quarter of a tone flat, while greying Giovanni Martinelli (Radames) eked out aging vocal chords with a veteran's caginess...
...Father of Victory," MarchGanne Overture to "Oberon" Weber "Silver Shadows," Tango Repper Dance of the Comedians, from "The Bartered Bride" Smetana large from "Now World" Symphony Deverak Fantasia, "Aida" Verdi Songs by the Student Nurses Glee Club On the Trail Grofe Cole Porter Hits of 1937 Arranged by Lewis Harris "Ridin' High"--"I've Got you Under My Skin"--"It's D'Lovely" "Strike Up the Band" Gedrshwin
...March, "semper Fidelis"Sousa *"Unfinished" Symphony in B minor, First movement Schubert Allegro moderato *Spring Song Mendelssohn *Academic festival Overture Brahms *Ballet Suite from "Aida" Verdi *Largo Handel *Ouverture Solennelle, "1812" Tchaikovsky *"Voices of Spring," Waltzes Strauss *"Night and Day" Porter *"Up the Street," March Mose *Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square...
...Triumphal March from "Aida"Verdi *Overture to "The Bartered Bride" Smetana *March of the Little Lead Soldiers Pierne *Bacchanale from 'Samson and Delilah' Saint Saens *"New Vienna" Waltzes Strauss *First Hungarian Rhapsody Liszt Orphean Club of Lasell Junior College George Sawyer Dunham, Conductor *Cole Porter Hits of 1937 Arranged by L. Harris "Ridin' High"--"I've Got You Under My Skin"--"It's D'Lovely" *Jealousy," Gypsy Tango Gade *"Stars and Stripes Forever," March Sousa *Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square...