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...wrong: it came too easily and too soon. He astonished musical observers by turning his back on celebrity, suspending all recording activity and curtailing most of his concerts. He returned to Milan for a few more years of musical study and reflection; he sought out the reclusive pianist Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli for lessons; he read philosophy and pursued his passion for chess...
Debussy: Préludes, Vol. 1 (Pianist Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Deutsche Grammophon). Any recording by the reclusive Michelangeli is an event. His Debussy is almost transparent. Light seems to flicker and dance throughout, creating moments of incandescent beauty. The carefree Les collines d'Anacapri and the eerie stillness of La cathédrale engloutie are special joys...
Like some other Italians, Carlo De Benedetti, Olivetti's managing director and deputy chairman, has moved his family out of the country; his wife and three children have lived in Switzerland for the past three years. But few businessmen themselves have been prompted to leave, and most would regard such a move with distaste. Says Alfa Romeo Chairman Gaetano Cortesi of the kidnaping threat: "If it happens, it happens. But if you give up, they win." Cortesire-Ruoi FREY fuses to hire bodyguards, yet he tries to keep his movements unpredictable. He never buys his newspaper from the same...
Although Kaiser is impressed by such Italian theatrical and musical artists as Milan's Director Giorgio Strehler, Conductor Claudio Abbado and Pianist Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, he is bored by the country's literature. "There are not many good Italian novels, probably because the Italian language has become over-rhetorical." Like Steiner, Kaiser is impressed by the intellectual ferment in France, particularly "the discussions influenced by Claude Levi-Strauss and the structuralists on one side and the Sartre pupils on the other." But except for the novels of Michel Butor and Claude Simon, whom he considers the most talented...
TOURAINE FESTIVAL (June 28-July 5), Meslay, central France, held in a barn built by monks in 1220, has scheduled performances by Pianists Sviatoslav Richter and Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Violinist Henryk Szeryng, Soprano Evelyn Lear and her husband, Baritone Thomas Stewart...