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...images you find around you," he says. In 1960 he finished 34 delicate frottage drawings to illustrate Dante's Inferno, and by using multiple images achieved an effect that neither Botticelli nor Blake, Dore nor Dali, would have dreamed of: he put each entire canto on a single sheet of paper...
...they do the Pillsbury suite ("Nothin' says lovin' like something from the oven"), and Jamie's is the voice of the animated Aero-Shave mermaid. They do Northwest Orient's Oriental airlines song, A.T. & T.'s longdistance elegy, and Alka-Seltzer's bel canto promise: "Relief is just a swallow away." One of their super-specialties is, "Look for the spear and get chewing enjoyment...
...PURITANI (3 LPs; London) is the last and loveliest of Bellini's operas, a story about the Roundheads and the Stuarts in the days of Cromwell incongruously drenched in Italian melody and sunlit harmony. Only singers skilled in bel canto, such as Joan Sutherland and Maria Callas, dare try it. In the new recording, Sutherland is the demented Elvira, and when she sings Vien, diletto in a deluge of perfectly matched and sparkling runs and trills, she embellishes even the embellishments. Maria Callas (on Angel's earlier version of I Puritani) has no such quicksilver in her voice...
...ragout, Franchi booms out Shenandoah, Arrivederci Roma, an aria from Tosca, a flamenco number, even Chicago in Italian. He is a tall, thin fellow who begins stiffly but soon has his tie and jacket off and his shirt unbuttoned. His big tenor has baritone depth. It lacks the bel canto sweetness of high operatic stature, but it has a lot of impressive thunder. "Most people have never been in an opera house," says Sergio's musical director...
...week in Italy they introduced a "House and Kitchen" encyclopedia. Though even runaway bestsellers seldom draw as many as 50,000 buyers in Italy, the Fabbris are currently selling 1,000,000 installments a week, including 300,000 copies of The Divine Comedy. Issued at the rate of one canto a week for 100 weeks, the full series will cost $50, at least ten times more than a bookstore edition. But each serialized book is full of illustrations, printed on fine paper from the Fabbris' own mill, and suitable for do-it-yourself binding in leather folders from another...