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...BETROTHED (591 pp.) - Alessandro Manzoni (translated by Archibald Colquhoun]-Dutton...
...Maria Camgha, Mezzo-Soprano Ebe Stignani, Tenor Beniamino Gigli, Basso Ezio Pinza' with the Rome Royal Opera Chorus and Orchestra, Tullio Serafin conducting-Victor: 20 sides; $10.50). No ardent Catholic Verdi wrote this Requiem for the anniversary of the death of his friend, Italy's Poet Alessandro Manzoni. The Requiem's melting arias, its thumping drums of doom and trumps of wrath have been damned as operatic. In this recent recording of the Mass, Basso Pinza and the chorus sing superbly, Tenor Gigli sounds prosciutto (Italian ham), Maestro Serafin conducts with shattering intensity. Album of the month...
...useful. However, those who simply want a "snap" should not include this course on their cards, for it is almost imperative that they attend all classes. During the year excerpts from the works of modern authors are read in addition to the first part of "I Promessi Sposi" by Manzoni, which is without doubt one of the pleasantest books read in any elementary modern language course...
...beau monde?U. S. Ambassador to France Walter Evans Edge, U. S. Ambassador to Poland John North Willys, the Duchess of Manchester, Mrs. Marshall Field, the Duchess de Guise, whose son married Princess Isabelle of Orleans-Braganza last month (TIME, April 20), and Lord Tyrrell and Conte-Manzoni, the British and Italian Ambassadors to France...
Verdi's Requiem Mass by Soprano Maria Fanelli, Mezzo-Soprano Irene Minghini-Cattaneo, Tenor Franco Lo Giudice, Basso Ezio Pinza and the chorus and orchestra of La Scala, Milan, recorded there under Conductor Carlo Sabajno (Victor, $15)-Verdi's vibrant tribute to Novelist Alessandro Manzoni, of particular interest in Manhattan this year be- cause of a performance under Arturo Toscanini in which Mezzo-Soprano Margaret Matzenauer sang magnificently...