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...Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velàsquez, court painter to Spain's proud Philip IV, was finishing a portrait of the King's daughter, the blonde, five-year-old Infanta Margarita. Around the demure princess bustled two noble maids of honor and two attendant dwarfs (one got, as a special favor, a pound of snow for each summer-day's work). A mastiff dozed on the floor, and in a mirror, Velàsquez occasionally caught sight of the King and Queen stopping to see how the sittings were progressing. Seized by new inspiration...
...Which got its name from Cockney attempts at saying "The Infanta of Castile...
Many thanks for the mention of my opera, The Birthday of the Infanta, in your issue of May 28. The "happy returns" are already coming in with eleven performances in the offing, publication and recording. A small correction, though...
...Birthday of the Infanta, by Ron Nelson, 29, graduate student at Rochester's Eastman School of Music, and composer of promotional-film sound tracks. Following Oscar Wilde's story, a dwarf falls in love with a Spanish princess and persuades her to set up her throne in the forest. The scheme is frustrated by the captain of the guard, and tragedy closes in. The music reminded listeners of both Puccini and Menotti, and suggested that Birthday will have many happy returns...
...Infanta Maria Christina of Spain, daughter of the late King Alfonso and wife of Count Enrico Marone-Cinzano of the vermouth family, arrived from Italy for her first visit to Manhattan. Her reaction: "What you in New York pay a cook, Rome pays an ambassador...