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Smith and Abstract Expressionist Philip Guston. Both finished out of the big prize money. But as a whole, the exhibition proved that the modern, peculiarly American idiom of abstract expressionism has become the lingua franca of art the world over. Murky and only half articulate, it is nevertheless spoken everywhere. The idiom has plenty of champions, and may yet find its poet...
LANGUAGE. Many of the new nationalist leaders are more fluent in English, the lingua franca of the Commonwealth, than in their native tongues...
...week's end Maria Golovin closed after five performances, but it has already been recorded by RCA Victor, and NBC intends to produce it on television, which may provide a better setting for the work's small-screen passions. Golovin's best feature: its cast, including Franca Duval, Patricia Neway and the bass-baritone find of the year, 22-year-old Richard Cross, who left college (Iowa's Cornell) only 18 months ago, but sings Donato with power and conviction...
...Louis Exposition of 1904) to speak English, and literate Americans to speak most of the world's tongues. Berlitz Schools in New York are prepared to teach 60 languages, last year taught 37. French is the most popular; Papimento-a Caribbean lingua franca of languages such as Dutch, Spanish, Hindustani-has not yet been requested; Sanskrit has been asked for, but not taught...
Ponchielli: La Gioconda (Anita Cerquetti, Franca Sacchi, Mario del Monaco, Cesare Siepi, Giulietta Simionato, Ettore Bastianini; conducted by Gianandrea Gavazzeni; London, 3 LPs). A first-rate cast gives a racy reading to Amilcare Ponchielli's old campaigner from Venice, proves that there is a lot more to it than its pop-concert Dance of the Hours. Mellow-voiced Soprano Cerquetti gives a superb performance as "the joyous female" of the title role who loses her blind mother and her lover before she plunges a dagger in her heart. Tenor del Monaco sings so gustily that he conceals the fact...