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Members of the Committee are Robert M. Hart of Adams House, Blaise Alfano of Dudley, William A. Ziegler, Jr. of Dunster House, Worth B. Daniels, Jr. of Eliot House, E. Warren, Jr. of Kirkland House, F. Burr Hardon of Leverett House, Frank S. Whiting of Lowell House, and Albert C. Riggs of Winthrop House...
...Connecticut, John E. Sonneland of Eliot House and Bellingham, Washington, John P. Cambell of Kirkland House and Whitesboro, N. Y., Dryden Jones of Leverett House and Cincinnati, Frank S. Whiting of Lowell House and Torrance, California, Henry H. Arthur of Winthrop House and New York City, and Blaise F. Alfano of Dudley Hall and Roslindale, Massachusetts...
...whole seemed thick, noisy, lacking in coherence, stretched this way and that to cover three acts for which there was insufficient substance. Not the old Puccini at all, it seemed, until the concluding love duet and finale which was not his but his friend's, Franco Alfano's, who wrote it after his death...
...audience, said: "The composer worked until this point and then died." It seemed uncanny to the audience that it should have ended with the slave girl's aria, the one big bit of unaffected melody. They waited eagerly to hear the ending written by Puccini's friend, Franco Alfano, from Puccini's notes, with which the Scala company is already prepared. They commended, meanwhile, the superb Turandot of Rosa Raisa, the creditable Prince of Miguel Fleta, the attractive, winning Liu of Maria Zamboni...
...Turandot, posthumous opera of Giacomo Puccini, finished by his friend Franco Alfano, to have its world premiere this week at La Scala, Milan...