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Dressed in black from head to foot, frail, tiny (4 ft. 7 in.) Felicitas Amorin de Fritscher looked older than her 39 years. As she dusted the carved cedar choir stalls of Lima's 300-year-old cathedral, her son Federico, 11, worked beside her. "I came to live here 17 years ago," she said as she finished cleaning the white-enameled spittoon beside the archbishop's throne. "I was the bride of Federico Fritscher, bell-ringer and caretaker of the cathedral. The pay was small but there were tips from the tourists, and here we paid...
Italians (at the Italian School of Cavalry in Pinerolo) first thought that a horse's movements must be controlled almost entirely through the rider's legs, and not through his hands. Federico Caprilli, an Italian officer of cavalry, was, in the 19th Century, the founder of a new system of riding called equitazione naturale, of which the secret mentioned above is a canon...
...certainly wasn't De Sabata's first program that lured the critics. There was only one new work, a viciously dissonant and twisting symphonic poem, Marinaresca e Baccanale, by a little known Italian contemporary named Giorgio Federico Ghedini. The others-Berlioz' blood & thunder Roman Carnival Overture, Franck's D Minor Symphony and Ravel's Bolero-were the kind of overly familiar music that delights most audiences and drugs most critics...
SELECTED POEMS OF FEDERICO GARCíA LORCA (56 pp.)-Translated by Stephen Spender and J. L. Gili-Transatlantic Arts...
...Federico GARCíA Lorca was a versatile Spaniard, a painter, musician, actor and dramatist as well as a poet. Since his death his reputation has continued to grow. Like most reputations, it has an element of the factitious. Lorca took no part in the Spanish republican movement, far less in the revolutionary uprising of the Left. He resented the political demonstrations that were made in Barcelona in 1935 on the occasion of one of his plays. Inevitably, however, Lorca's assassination made him a hero and a martyr of the republic. Whether he knew...