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...none are more enduring than the creation of a crèche, centered about the watching Mary and the Christ child asleep in a manger. The magnificent 18th century creche on TIME'S cover this week is one of the famous Neapolitan presepios that delighted King Charles III of Naples and his queen, who sewed garments of silk and velvet for such exquisitely wrought figurines. Using the simplest of materials-vegetable fibers on wire skeletons, wooden hands and feet, earthenware heads-noted Italian sculptors created these figures, which now enact the Christmas story in the apartment of a Neapolitan...
...specialized trade, and Naples was its center, with orders for cribs coming in from all over Europe. In the former royal Neapolitan palace at Caserta are preserved some 300 of the thousands of figurines that once composed Italy's most magnificent presepio, belonging to Bourbon King Charles III of Naples, who spent months arranging it each year in several rooms of the palace, while his queen and her ladies in waiting sewed silk and velvet costumes for the new figures. One of the most striking of the Neapolitan presepios, owned by Collector Marcello Hallecker of Naples, is shown...
...audience and conveyed an immediate sense of the turbulent passions that animate the role. As the opera unfolded, Soprano Nilsson continued to dominate the stage with such ringing power that she cut without difficulty through the opulent textures of the Wagnerian orchestra-particularly in the climactic Liebestod in Act III. Perhaps because of debut stresses, the voice also had its marked drawbacks; at times it sounded strained, took on a steely glitter when more opulent warmth was called for. Apparently a more severe critic of herself than some of Manhattan's reviewers, Soprano Nilsson said later: "After the first...
...sticker emblazoned with the record pitchman's call: "30 Complete Selections on 2 LPs, Regularly $9.98, Special Only $3.98." Inside is a strange mixture of musical candies: Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy singing Indian Love Call, Arturo Toscanini and the NBC Symphony playing the Prelude to Act III of Lohengrin. Perez Prado, Tommy Dorsey and Perry Como rub grooves with Enrico Caruso, Sergei Rachmaninoff and Leopold Stokowski...
...CIVIL WAR DICTIONARY, by Mark M. Boatner III (974 pp.; Mckay; $15), suggests that arguments about the Civil War may never cease but that a lot of them are going to be settled by this book. Lieut. Colonel Boatner, onetime instructor of military history at West Point, has arranged 4,000 items in alphabetical order, among them 2,000 brief biographies of notable Civil War figures and scores of succinct action accounts from Gettysburg to mere skirmishes...