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...really a stage set. The Piazza d'ltalia fountain in New Orleans was commissioned as a celebratory space for the local Italian community. Moore dismissed all thought of "unitary" Tuscan directness and produced a razzmatazz design, a caprice resembling the gaudy, papier-mâché fair sets of Sicilian festa decor: fragments of Roman and Renaissance buildings around an 80-ft.-long stone map of Italy, like the masterpiece of a megalomaniac pastry cook. A fountain spurts out of Moore's Sicily, and its water runs down in rivulets representing the Po, the Arno and the Tiber...
...Harvard soon enough, but still in Boston are concerts by the Boston Symphony and the Boston U. Symphony Orchestra. Seiji Ozawa conducts an all-Respighi concert today at 11 a.m.--"Festa Romane," "Fountains of Rome" and "Pines of Rome." The BSO also performs Haydn's Symphony No. 30 in C, the Boston Premiere of Cruckman's "Chiaroscuro," and Respighi again (minus "Festa Romane"). Here's your chance to hear the Respighi--interesting works evoking Roman splendor; the concerts are Friday at 2, Saturday at 8:30, and Tuesday at 7:30. The BU Symphony concert features the exciting Piano Concerto...
...born in Catania)? A bust seemed to be the answer, until somebody remembered a national law that forbids statues of liv-ing persons. Catania will probably say it with flowers instead-by dedicating a Sinatra floral zone in the public gardens and giving Frank honorary citizenship-and with a festa and TV cameras and maybe even with Frank...
...tourist season in Italy quieted down this year, it seemed to Impresario Gino Land! that it would be a shame to waste all those horses, women and gladiators; so he packed them all up and sent them to the U.S. for a multicity tour. Last week Landi's Festa Italiana opened at Madison Square Garden, and much to everybody's surprise, the extravaganza turned out to be a kind of 1st century Hellzapoppin...
...honor of tying the slave behind his chariot and dragging him across the arena and through the exit at full gallop. The violence of it all would certainly get a thumbs down from the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to People, but on the other hand, Festa Italiana is the only show in town that keeps the performers in stitches...