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Best of all, Portugal likes to listen to the fado songs of dark-eyed Amalia Rodrigues. In Lisbon, every taxi driver can point out her house; her appearance in one of the cafés, theaters or casinos is cause for celebration. In the dozen years she has been singing professionally, Europe and Brazil have also savored her fados, but it was not until this season that Amalia was introduced to the U.S. She began what is likely to be a long run at the Manhattan nightclub La Vie en Rose...
...dinner engagement at St. Francis Hospital in nearby Jersey City, and when he appeared, holding a handkerchief to his face, Sister Amalia, the superintendent, suggested that he go to the clinic. Brother Salesius protested at first that it was merely a bump, and his injuries amounted to nothing. Then he told about the attack, but he asked her not to tell the three members of his order who were traveling with him, for fear they might worry unduly about...
...Sister Amalia called the police. Could he describe the men who attacked him? Brother Salesius did so, reluctantly. "It may be," said the man who had given a lifetime to charity, "that they needed the money badly." While he was talking to the police, he began to feel ill. He was taken to a hospital bed, and the doctors gave their diagnosis: a cerebral hemorrhage. For two hours, until he sank into a coma and died, Brother Salesius prayed aloud for the two men who had robbed...
Verdi: Falstaff (Giuseppe Taddei, baritone; Saturno Meletti, baritone; Emilio Renzi, tenor; Gino Del Signore, tenor; Giuseppe Nessi, tenor; Cristiano Dalla Mangas, bass; Rosanna Carteri, soprano; Lina Pagliughi, soprano; Anna Maria Canali, mezzo-soprano; Amalia Pini, mezzo-soprano; orchestra and chorus of Radio Italiana, Mario Rossi conducting; Cetra-Soria, 6 sides LP). This is a slightly different Falstaff from the one NBC listeners have just heard from Arturo Toscanini (TIME, April 10). Orchestrally, it lacks the carefulness and cleanness of Toscanini's performance, and Conductor Rossi allows his singers, all excellent, more swagger and sway. But stylistically...
Command performances were agony. Once, playing before Portugal's Queen Amalia, Bauer found the court piano in such bad shape that half the keys stuck. At the Spanish court he had to struggle through a Beethoven sonata while twelve-year-old Alfonso XIII romped about him, and the Infanta Isabella chattered all the way through the piece ("How like Wagner . . . This reminds me of Chopin...