Word: giovannis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lofty step the ruins of the Forum: each memorable spot where Romulus stood, or Cicero spoke, or Caesar fell, was at once present to my eye." Last week visitors to Detroit's Institute of Arts could see what Gibbon saw, as painted by his 18th Century contempo rary, Giovanni Paolo Pannini. The institute had just acquired Pannini's splendid, solemn View of the Colosseum (see cut) and View of the Forum...
...Mozart's money, Don Giovanni and Idomeneo, Rè di Creta were the two best operas he ever wrote. Few have ever doubted that Don Giovanni was his best. Few have ever heard Idomeneo. Last week, at Massachusetts' Berkshire Festival, an audience heard Idomeneo in one of its few performances in 166 years, its first ever in the U.S. Though few would be willing to switch their bets from Don Giovanni, most agreed that Idomeneo was well worth hearing...
...opera, Danton's Death, was all set-and then the conductor stomped off after a rehearsal. It was a faint echo, at least, of the hectic days of the Salzburg Festival's patron saint, when Wolfgang Mozart dashed off the overture to Don Giovanni the night before its première in Prague...
After his eighth piano lesson, Pierino had dumfounded his teacher by learning the minuet from Mozart's Don Giovanni in twelve minutes. An unsuspected possessor of absolute pitch, he could name any note he heard struck on the piano. In one morning, Pierino learned the first movement of Beethoven's First Symphony and shortly after conducted the entire symphony at the Rome Opera. After that came concerts in Milan, Zurich, Basel...
...Pope enters the chapel and kneels before the altar, which is decorated with white flowers (fresh every morning-from the Vatican gardens in summer and from hothouses in winter). The prayers in preparation for Mass take 20 minutes, then Giovanni helps the Pope put on the vestments for Mass. Mass is said in strictest privacy. Giovanni serves and the only others present are the members of the small community of Swiss nuns of the Congregation of the Holy. Cross of Metzingen, who look after the Pope's clothes and kitchen. At about 10 minutes past 8, Mass is finished...