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...music I have written up to now," said Giacomo Puccini, "seems a jest in comparison." He was speaking of his last and most ambitious opera, Turandot, which he left unfinished at his death in 1924. Completed by his friend Franco Alfano, Turandot is rarely performed despite the exotic splendors of its score. Chief reasons for its neglect: a certain harshness that sets it apart from the big Puccini favorites (Tosca, Bohème, Butterfly), some devilishly difficult vocal parts, and a need for sumptuous staging...
...what was to Toscanini a perfectly adequate explanation, he turned to the audience in Milan's La Scala and announced simply, "Here Puccini ended his opera." He refused to go a note farther on that occasion, even though he admitted that Puccini's fellow composer Franco Alfano had done a good job of completing the score. Conductors since have not been so finicky; but even so, Turandot (roughly rhymes, with two afloat) has never been as popular as Puccini's Tosca, Madame Butterfly, La Boheme. Last week a New York City Opera audience heard some...
Daniel R. Shields, of Kirkland House and Sugar Grove, Illinois, was chosen Class Secretary, and Blaise F. Alfano, of Kirkland House and Roslindale, received the post of Treasurer. Six additional then were chosen as members of the permanent Class Committee: Donald J. Blake, of Kirkland House and Rochester, New York; Thomas A. Caldwell, Jr., of Kirkland House and Chattanooga, Tennessee; Lawrence Creshkoff, of Eliot House and Philadelphia; Robert M. Hart, of Eliot House and Tulsa, Oklahoma; Walter H. Trumbull, Jr., of Kirkland House and Weston; and Richard L. Warren, of Eliot House and Rockton, Illinois...
Shields was expected to be an important member of the Crimson basketball team this winter, but a broken ankle put him out before the season started. Alfano has been active in College activities, and is now treasurer of the Student Council. He is secretary of Phillips Brooks House, while last year he was on the '46 Freshman Committee...
Twelve men from the Class of '46 were appointed by the Student Council to nominate officers. The committee includes Blaise F. Alfano, E. Thomas Binger, S. Douglass Cafer, Jr., Richard A. Chonowoth, Lawrence Creshkeff, Douglas Danner, William W. Dunu, Dana Fernald, Robert M. Rart, Robert W. Regan, Frank S. Whiting, and William A. Ziegler...