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...last 20 years of his life, Spanish Composer Manuel de Falla (1876-1946) seemed to have deserted music. In Granada, and later in Argentina, he passed his time in apparently unproductive solitude. But Falla never stopped working, and the years of silence were filled with a dream-"to glorify the immortality of Spain through music." Last week, at Milan's La Scala, the grand dream came to life at the premiere of Falla's four-hour-long scenic cantata La Atlantida...
...Falla conceived of La Atlantida as his life's masterwork. a Spanish Parsifal, throbbing with epic Wagnerian themes and massive Wagnerian thunder. He took his title and story from the Catalonian epic by Jacinto Verdaguer-a tale of the lost continent of Atlantis, destroyed for its sins, and of Spain preserved to export Christianity to the New World...
...Scala, under the baton of U.S. Conductor Thomas Schippers, La Atlantida proved to be a grandiose but admirably controlled work that made its points with much of the concision that Falla displayed in such earlier compositions as The Three-Cornered Hat. Where Falla departed from his familiar style was in the sparing use of folk material and in the skillful use of a descriptive chorus. Atlantida has only three major singing roles: Narrator Corifeo (Baritone Lino Puglisi), Queen Pyrene (Mezzo Giulietta Simionato), and Queen Isabella (Soprano Teresa Stratas). Much of the action is either pantomime or dancing...
Young People's Concert (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). New York Philharmonic with Leonard Bernstein, features Gershwin's An American in Paris, De Falla's The Three-Cornered...
...vast majority prefer to stick together in Miami, even if it means privation. The climate, they point out, is similar to Cuba's-and, looking toward the happy day when Fidel Castro is gone, Miami will be only a short distance from home. Says Laureano Batista Falla, president of the exiled Christian Democratic Party: "What distinguishes them from other refugees that have to come to the United States is that they are here to fight to go back. They did not come here to settle down and live comfortably. Many of them could still be perfectly comfortable in Cuba...