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...shabby Italian seaport of Pozzuoli, just outside Naples, is widely known as the home town of Sophia Loren. But Pozzuoli (pop. 70,000) has another distinction. Perched atop a geologically active area that includes Vesuvius and boiling sulfur springs named the Campi Flegrei ("Fiery Fields"), the ancient town has been quite literally rising and falling at least since Roman times. These terrestrial undulations-an example of what some geologists call bradyseisms (from the Greek roots bradys, or slow, and seismos, earthquake) -usually occur gradually and imperceptibly. But lately Pozzuoli has been moving at an extaordinary rate. Last week, after parts...
...flashy, $250,000 bus, complete with galley, six bunks, a bathroom with shower, and a private compartment for Budweiser's August Anheuser Busch Jr. In the individual competitions were all bowling's big names and, to TV fans, familiar faces. Chief among them was Lou Campi, Dumont, N.J. contractor whose awkward, wrong-foot bowling style has made him the Lucille Ball of TV bowling, recently won him $6,000 and two Fords in a single TV tournament. In another, an East-West TV tournament, he has been rolling up winnings for twelve weeks; if he bowls a perfect...
...chief novelty, though now 31 years old, was a work in which the chorus sang for half an hour without emitting a single word, Vaughan Williams' extraordinary Flos Campi. In this piece the chorus vocalizes on all kinds of vowel sounds and musically sustainable consonants. The composer was not interested in expressing ideas, but rather in evoking moods by exploiting sheer sonority and tonal colors. Occasionally there appeared such typical Vaughan Williams features as chordal parallelism; but mixed in with them were wonderful wailing appoggiaturas and, above all non-Western melodic lines that so characteristically turned back on themselves--which...
...concert, which is free, will also include choruses from Acis and Galatea by Handel, Flos Campi by Vaughan Williams, and Tirsi and Clori (Ballo Concertato) by Monteverdi. Selections from Rennaisance madrigals and contemporary American music will also be sung. The chorus will be conducted by Professor Harold C. Schmidt of Stanford...
...partial list of selected works indicates that composers for the two performances have been chosen from a list of contemporary and Baroque musicians. Handel's Acis and Galata; Williams' Flos Campi; and Monteverdi's Tirsi and Clorinda A Ballo Concertante represent the larger works for the chorus...