Word: fantasia
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...Fantasia. Movie Producer Sam Spiegel hired Architect Edward Stone (TIME cover, March 31, 1958) to build a glossy Park Avenue duplex penthouse. With the help of his wife Maria, Stone turned the place into a never-never land of white marble, pink silk, Turkish lamps and other assorted fixtures of Cinemascopic proportions. The sunken marble tub is merely outsize; the master's bed looks roughly like a polo field covered in cardinal red velvet. Like all dedicated cinemagnates, Spiegel has his own home-projection facilities. The wide screen is hidden behind curtains. When he wants...
...rest of the program in any way noteworthy. Miss Dorothy Crawford, who has a pleasant voice, was the soloist in a secular cantata, Non sa che sia Dolore, attributed (maliciously) to J. S. Bach; the Orchestra's strings played Purcell's Fantasia on One Note with as much life as a bagpipe; and everybody fretted over the overture to Mozart's Impresario like gummed velvet...
...program of recorded music Saturday in Matthews Hall common Room, 3-5 p.m., is Dvorak's Quartet in E-flat, Saint-Saens' Septet for String Quartet, Bass, Trumpet & Piano, Fernando Sor's Estudio 5, 12, 9, Minuetto from Sonata (Opus 22), Largo from Fantasia II, Rondo Allegretto from Sonata (Opus 22), Andante Largo (Opus 5, no. 5), Hugo Alfven's Midsummer Vigil, Swedish Rhapsody (no. 1, Opus 19), The Mountain King, A Ballet Pantomime (Opus 87), and Bloch's Schelomo...
...alumni applauded every piece enthusiastically and stood respectfully for the final rendition of "Fair Harvard." Included in the concert were Morse's "Up the Street, March," Brahms' "Academic Festival Overture," Saint-Saene' "The Animals' Carnival, Grand Zoological Fantasia," and "Kid Stuff (A Good-Night Send-off for the Second generation), arranged by Hayman...
Furiously, gallantly and without illusions, the baroness has long been at work on a projected 2,000-page Arabian Nights fantasia of a novel to be called Albondocani: "I hope to finish it just before I die, but only just" Recalling the meaning of her name, Isak Dinesen feels she has had the gift of laughter, and something more, "the pure joy of living, a sort of triumph simply because one exists." For the rest, she is content to quote the poet Landor...