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...SPECIAL (CBS, 10-11 a.m.). Metropolitan Stars Giorgio Tozzi, Charles Anthony and Helen Vanni sing Berlioz' L'Enfance Du Christ with the CBS Symphony Orchestra...
Dozza thrives on paradox. When Bologna's Giacomo Cardinal Lercaro ordered the shaky old church of San Giorgio torn down, it was Dozza who insisted on repairs to preserve it as an historic landmark. In 1956, when a Christian Democratic candidate for mayor tried to undercut Dozza by promising sweeping social-welfare programs, the Red mayor branded his scheme financially irresponsible, and was re-elected by a landslide...
...Died. Giorgio Morandi, 73, Italian painter following the 19th century impressionist style, a self-effacing recluse who spent his days composing serene, Cézanne-like still lifes of bottles, vases and flowers, which brought as much as $10,000 on the open market but which he usually sold to dealers for less than $200 because "I would consider it an immoral exploitation if I accepted such sums"; after a long illness; in Bologna...
...Hartigan hit $3,000 but had a low of $700; Okada hit $2,000, Marca-Relli $3,000. The real surprise of the evening was a quiet, 1952 still life of ceramic ware, plain as a cupboard and less abstract than a Cezanne, by 73-year-old Giorgio Morandi. Winning...
With his characteristic classically-conceived "modern" forms and blatantly ugly color palette, Giorgio de Chirico depicts his reaction to modern civilization. In "The Nostalgia of the Infinite" (1913-14) the viewer looks up a towering building, isolated and uncommunicative; in "The Anxious Journey" (1913), he sees a maze of arches and doorways, uncommitted and foreboding...