Word: grand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Damaged Goods. The Soviet's grand gesture nearly backfired earlier this year when Western art experts got their first close-up view of the paintings. Despite boastful Russian claims that the paintings had been carefully preserved and restored by Soviet experts, Art News Editor Alfred Frankfurter touched off an international art ruckus by noting that at least 30 of the masterpieces were cracked, blistered or awkwardly patched...
...barrels of gold'' at a time for paintings he wanted. An insatiable collector, he acquired such paintings as Vermeer's Girl Reading a Letter (which he thought was a Rembrandt), Rubens' Bathsheba and Tintoretto's Rescue of Arsinoe, in one peak year bought a grand total of 715 paintings. Greatest of Augustus' coups was his acquisition of Raphael's Sistine Madonna, once the property of the Benedictine monks of San Sisto, in Piacenza, Italy. When the painting was brought before him, Augustus pushed aside his throne, then in a rare gesture of royal...
...rest of the leads are generally well handled, especially that of the Grand Mikado (Victor Altshul). He has an impressive voice, and combines a regal loftiness with the eagerness of a village fool. The tendency toward madness is also reflected in the executioner (Ned Marcus), who leaps and leers his way across the stage. Marcus' continual body motion and fast pace tend to be a bit too intense, but he is quite funny, and could be even funnier if he would slow down enough to let all the lines come across. His best moments are with the old maid, played...
...story-a story about love itself." Like Trial at Rouen, it will be on a large scale, for Dello Joio, the son of an Italian immigrant, likes to think of himself as a spiritual descendant of Verdi. It is possible that Dello Joio will emerge as the next important grand opera composer. He is already one of the few U.S. composers who can live solely on the income from his compositions...
...unusual as the circular office building, the first of its kind in the world, is its owner-Capitol Records. Fourteen years ago Capitol was a shellac-like gleam in the eyes of three founders (including Blues in the Night Composer Johnny Mercer), who put up a grand total of $10,000. Last year Britain's giant, conservative Electrical & Musical Industries liked the company so much that it paid $8,300,000 for 96.4% of Capitol's stock...