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CALDARA: IL GIUOCO DEL QUADRIGLIO (Nonesuch). Quadriglio, perhaps the best-known work of the Venetian composer Antonio Caldara (1670-1736), is a showpiece cantata for four sopranos. It was commissioned by Archduchess Maria Theresa (later Empress of Austria) and performed at court by her and her sisters. The ladies must have minded their singing master to negotiate the runs and trills that ornament this gay, witty music about four bored young damsels desultorily playing cards and wishing that both their hands and their suitors were more exciting. The soloists and orchestra of the Societàa Cameristica di Lugano have...
...week's end, arriving exuberantly in Texas for the Easter holiday, Johnson announced new plans to expand the Great Society. At a bill-signing ceremony to celebrate a two-month extension of the medicare registration deadline-held characteristically at a federally financed home for the aged in San Antonio-Johnson said he would ask Congress next year for "increased insurance benefits, across the board, for 21 million beneficiaries" of social security, plus free dental services under medicare for children...
After some politicking, the Johnsons then accompanied Daughter Luci and Fiancé Pat Nugent at a Good Friday service in San Antonio's Roman Catholic San Fernando Cathedral, later flew to the L.B.J. Ranch for a long Easter weekend. There they were joined by Daughter Lynda, looking as radiant as her father and sporting a jeweled gold ring on the third finger of her left hand. A gift from her current beau, Actor George Hamilton, who had also joined the family for the weekend, the ring, White House aides averred, stood for "friendship," not connubial intent...
...From San Antonio, Lady Bird and her entourage, 70 strong, flew to the desert mountain fastnesses of Big Bend National Park, where she was greeted by a crowd of 4,200, including, one local noted, "every living critter around here." So stark and jagged that astronauts have visited it to see what they will encounter on the moon-yet fiercely beautiful withal-Big Bend receives far fewer visitors than most other national parks, was thus a prime spot for one of the First Lady's See America First promotion trips...
Correggio was incredibly accomplished for a man who lived far from Florence and Rome. Born Antonio Allegri around 1494 and called after the town of his birth, he may never have seen the art capitals of his time. Yet he was thoroughly a man of his age, more influenced by the classical traditions of Greece and Rome than by the devotional art of the Middle Ages. The alabaster flesh relates to marble rather than to the painted wood of medieval altarpieces. More human than divine, Correggio's early masterpiece is both sensual and innocent. Alive with the fresh greenness...