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...engineers to stop the recording. Then she helped Conductor Franco Ferrara to a chair, plied him with black coffee. Ten minutes later he rapped the Santa Cecilia Orchestra of Rome to silence, led them the rest of the way through a singing recording of Ildebrando Pizzetti's Canti della Stagione Alta...
...gown when Yale's President A. Whitney Griswold hammed up his Latin while presenting degrees; Adenauer barnstorming down Chicago's State Street behind a smart-stepping brass band; Adenauer wagging a finger at possible flaws in Washington's National Gallery of Art ("School of Piero della Francesco,, perhaps"); Adenauer boning up on his personal press notices at 7:30 a.m.; Adenauer falling hours behind schedule as he talked to those he wanted to talk to for as long as he wanted to talk to them...
...When Osservatore della Domenica* a Catholic weekly published in Vatican City, ran an article attacking U.S. Protestants, sloppy reporting made it appear in many U.S. papers as a Vatican-inspired view. But Milwaukee's Catholic Herald Citizen (circ. 126,097)-which is just as official as the unofficial Osservatore-rapped the Italian article as "stupid, untruthful, uncharitable...
...Francine Clark Art Institute, the Clarks ignored cost (local boosters boast that the marble for the new museum was the biggest single order in Vermont since the U.S. Supreme Court), but insisted on quality. In 45 years of collecting, the Clarks have ranged widely, from Botticelli and Piero della Francesca to Puvis de Chavannes. The museum still has 30-odd Renoirs tucked in the basement, one soon-to-be-opened gallery hung with Italian primitives. The rest of the Clarks' collection, housed in residences both in the U.S. and abroad, is so large and dispersed that Museum Director Peter...
Beautiful and sad, the Lamente Della Ninfa, sung by Sarah-Jane Smith, the Nymph, and a supporting Chorus including Malcolm Ticknor, John Crawford, and Thomas Beveridge. Miss Smith interpreted her plaintive melodies very expressively, while the deep-voiced Chorus provided rich contrast. The form of this work, that of a Greek Play in miniature, is truly Renaissance, but the feeling is so direct and unrestrained as to anticipate later eras...