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The façade that Florence's Palazzo Capponi presents to the street is tawny and severe. Unlike Germanic peoples, the Italians built their palaces with austere exteriors, content to have the opulence displayed within. But for the past 15 years, the Palazzo Capponi has defended from public gaze...
Szell's loss to the world of music, like Toscanini's before him, is incalculable. The two conductors resembled each other in many ways, though they had arrived at the resemblance by opposite paths. The Italian had brought Verdian passion to the Viennese world of Mozart, Beethoven and...
Drawing on sworn testimony before the Economy in Government Subcommittee, which he chairs, Proxmire contends that U.S. weapons procurement today is a "welfare system" for companies that do a majority of their business with the Government. Extravagance and cost concealment are the rule; 90% of major weapons systems, says Proxmire...
* The Germanic spelling, which is used by some radicals to indicate America's control by "fascists."
Morale at the orchestra was at its lowest in recent memory when Leinsdorf departed, and the BSO, which had been one of the international greats under Koussevitsky and Munch, was trailing each of the other four major American orchestras in record sales. When RCA Victor picked up the contract for...