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...boxing world was once aghast to discover that Gene Tunney occasionally read books. So there is no telling how much damage Italy's Giovanni Benvenuti, 29, may do to the image of the sport. Imagine a prizefighter who looks like a Beatle, reads Voltaire, listens to Chopin, and trains on vintage wine. Actually, "Nino" Benvenuti never got past high school in his native Trieste, and something may be lost in the translation, since he speaks only Italian. But his interpreter at least uses words like "impetus" and "counterproductive," and ascribes to Nino such thoughtful pronouncements as "literature...
...Messiaen's use of bird song in his work seems at once avant-garde and traditional, the paradox is typical. He is a fervent Roman Catholic who feels a primitive reverence for nature, a musical innovator who retains his childhood love for Mozart and Chopin. Although he stands aloof from the factions of the music scene, he is a teacher and champion of such different composers as Pierre Boulez and Karlheinz Stockhausen...
...memory for the favorite tunes of conventioneers who return only once every two or three years, bones up on a little red notebook in which he keeps the names of patrons, their physical characteristics and their songs. With a spotlight trained on his hands, he sometimes plays Mozart and Chopin, remembered from his days at the New England Conservatory. Like all cocktail pianists, he is philosophical about lack of attention. "When they don't listen," he says, "I listen myself...
...lived alone in an apartment in her remaining years, bedridden and arthritic, having daily contact only with her maid Yacinta. At week's end she was buried next to Gertrude in Paris' famed Perè Lachaise Cemetery, where also lie such luminaries as Molière, Proust, Chopin and Delacroix...
BAROQUE SKETCHES (Columbia). Some imaginative and energetic forays in the boundary land between jazz and the classics by the lyrical Flugelhorn of Art Farmer and a big "baroque orchestra" bright with brasses. The mixed company of composers includes Chopin, Albéniz and Sonny Rollins (Alfie's Theme) along with Bach (Air on the G String and Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring). Pretty wiggy...