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...Fantasia-Sevilliana by Joaquin Turina, Fisk's instrument immediately filled the Gardner's tapestried concert hall with its booming sound. The Turina, a work from this century, evokes traditional images of bull-fighting and Spanish dancing. Luigi Boccherini carried these ideas back to Italy more than a century before with his own guitar works...
Italian President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro today ended a volatile, 22-day period of uncertainty at the top by naming the country's respected treasury minister, Lamberto Dini, as prime minister-designate to succeed flamboyant media magnate Silvio Berlusconi. The non-partisan Dini promised "a government of technocrats" to restore stability in a country that has seen 53 postwar governments come and go. But Berlusconi, who resigned last month after losing parliamentary support, called Scalfaro "a sphinx who minces his words" for not reappointing him. A large-scale political fight now looms, as Berlusconi presses for elections that, with recent gains...
...votes. "A weight has been taken off," the Italian media magnate said after resigning. But Berlusconi, who just yesterday dared the country's lawmakers to vote him out, is following through on threats to immediately press for a new election he hopes will return him to power. President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro's more ceremonial role in politics now becomes pivotal: he'll decide whether to grant Berlusconi's elections request -- or call on politicians to form a new parliamentary majority without him. The balance tipped against Berlusconi's seven-month-old government last week, when former key ally Umberto Bossi...
...comeback, as one of his chief aides predicted yesterday. Instead, the media magnate warned Italian lawmakers in a speech that voting this week to oust his seven-month-old coalition would turn voters against them. If he loses the no-confidence vote, Berlusconi said, he'll ask President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro to call another election to select Italy's 54th government in 49 years. The controversy revolves around a high-profile criminal inquiry into bribery allegations involving his own firms...
Berlusconi was not ready to concede. If any of the five parties in his government switched allegiance, he said, it would be "a Judas," and he would ask for new elections; he would make no deals "over the heads of the electorate." He had the agreement of President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, who warned party leaders against forging the kind of Byzantine deals that produced paralytic governments in the past and distorted the voters' expressed will...