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...German Richard Oelze with buildings and people that look as if they had been submerged in water for years. There were wooden moons and seas by Max Ernst, a geometric Anthony and Cleopatra by Philadelphia-born Man Ray, a couple of dreamy street scenes by Italy's Giorgio de Chirico. Among the younger artists, none were equal in quality, and some seemed to be more action painters than surreal. Robert Rauschenberg's Bed -sheets, pillow and quilt daubed with paint-and Jasper Johns's Target, with its anatomical sculptures, including a penis, were merely repulsive...
Verdi: Requiem (Leontyne Price, Jussi Bjoerling, Rosalind Elias, Giorgio Tozzi; Vienna Philharmonic and Vienna Society of the Friends of Music, under Fritz Reiner; RCA Victor, 2 LPs). A clean-lined, beautifully balanced and honest version, full of tranquil breathing space. The performances by Tenor Bjoerling, in his last, full recording role before his death, and Soprano Price, at the incandescent top of her form, stand out as stunning achievements...
...good accompanists seem to share Moore's enthusiasm, documented wittily if somewhat defensively in his 1944 book, The Unashamed Accompanist. England's Ivor Newton explains his passion for accompanying as resulting from "a phobia about being alone." Italy's Giorgio Favoretto is less interested in togetherness than in "uniting the arts of poetry and music," while France's Janopoulo confesses to lacking the "special soul and the kind of conviction that passes across the footlights." Whatever its appeal, accompanying has attracted first-rate pianists, among them the U.S.'s Paul Ulanowsky and Franz Rupp, England...
...match the flogging power of the Shostakovich orchestration, a first-rate cast was called for, and the Met supplied it: Giorgio Tozzi, Ezio Flagello, Norman Kelley, Kim Borg, Blanche Thebom. The immense chorus sang the English text (by John Gutman) with both volume and admirable clarity. But the clear triumph of the evening belonged to Baritone George London in the title role. His Boris, which he sang with great success during his recent tour of Russia, was passionate, anguished, suffused with an almost unbearable sense of racking inner tensions. As London played it last week, it clearly belonged among...
...Extremes. The Bergamo festival has launched such well-known Italian composers as Gian Francesco Malipiero and Giorgio Ghedini on their operatic careers (a notable exception: Gian Carlo Menotti, who, says a friend, "found his Bergamo in America"). The two new works at this year's festival displayed the extremes of two warring contemporary Italian styles. The Admiral, by Arturo Andreoli, 58, a longtime coach at La Scala, was a typical example of verismo (an operatic movement comparable to literary "realism"), made popular in the late igth century by Mascagni, Leonca--vallo, Puccini. Based on a one-act play...