Word: ischia
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...spent half of almost every year on the Mediterranean island of Ischia. His Ischia landscapes are among his best works, but they were more the landscapes of a dream than of nature. No sun bathed them; they seemed to be lit from within. And sometimes a tree or a mountainside would take on the shape of a bird, a face or a giant eye. Gilles painted Ischia's fishermen, but they were as lonely as his gods, as tortured as his Ophelia and Lear. Whatever his subject, it was thick with melancholy...
...life of any party; but his favorite haunts were the seedy back-street beer halls (Berliner Kneipen) frequented by taxi drivers, petty criminals and superannuated prostitutes. Though he talked year after year of going off to Italy to visit his friend Artist Werner Gilles on the island of Ischia, he let year after year go by before he could bring himself to apply for a passport. He loved West Berlin with a passion, had not budged from it since 1945, and his mythical trip to Ischia became a standing joke among his friends...
...last, one day in 1954, Heldt got a passport. The night before his departure for Italy, he made the rounds of his Kneipen to say goodbye, later wrote from Ischia that he wondered whether he would ever see his old haunts again. He never did. At Ischia, after a bibulous evening with his friends, he died in his sleep at the age of 49. The end was so peaceful that Werner Gilles cried out in a mixture of grief and envy: "He stole the death I had planned for myself...
Walton, who now lives with his Argentine-born wife on the Italian island of Ischia, is well aware that he is considered old hat by a younger generation of English composers. Perhaps because he flunked out of Oxford for failing algebra, he has never had the slightest interest in "mucking about the tone-rows." And even if he did, he is not persuaded that it would help his reputation. These days, Walton observes, musical one-upmanship has become such a complex art that "it is quite possible to go in and out of fashion four or five times during...
Born. To Amelia Eden Borelli, 26, Sir Anthony's niece, who ran off to the Italian island of Ischia last year to marry a $34-a-week ferryboat engineer, and Boatman Giovanni Borelli, 30: a daughter; in London, where the couple is visiting. Name: Chaira Maria. Weight...