Word: milan
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Poet Quasimodo, 58, does not take it lightly that his countrymen rank him so modestly. A professor of literature (Milan Academy of Music), with children in their 20s and a mistress who is their contemporary, he makes enemies easily and does not easily forget them. Having long since recovered from his first silence about the Nobel Prize, he now sees it as a victory in a battle in which he "fought alone'' while "my adversaries, that is, the other candidates, had great forces." In this selection from his work, U.S. readers now have a chance to inspect...
Florence (May to-June 30). Celebrates the 200th anniversary of Florentine Composer Luigi Cherubini's birth with the first modern performance of his long-forgotten Elisa. The Maggio Musicale will also offer a handful of 20th century works, including Janacek's Jenufa, will feature concerts by Milan's Nuovo Quartette, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Warsaw, Violinist Isaac Stern...
...travels about Europe, figures Soprano Leontyne Price, she must have walked several dozen times through Milan's Piazza della Scala, past the ornate brown-brick theater with the triple-arched main entrance. She never went in. "I swore," says she, "that I would not enter even as a tourist until I sang there." Last week she entered, singing: at 33 she was making her La Scala debut in Aïda, and the demanding audience recognized almost at once that she would...
...terra cotta study of his Thinker, Rouault by a somber Autumn. About the liveliest item in the show is a couple of playful cats done by Sculptor Pericle Fazzini. As usual, Giorgio de Chirico was unhappy about the choice of his work-an uninspired Still Life with Fruit and Milan Cathedral Seen from Rooftops. Said he: "Of course all my works are good, but these are of lesser importance...
Last week aircraft experts were prepared to release a report telling of a "million-to-one shot" where scientists think St. Elmo's fire proved fatal. The plane: a Trans World Airlines Super Constellation that took off into a stormy Italian sky last June 26 from Milan, bound for New York, and crashed twelve minutes later, killing all of the nine crew members and 59 passengers aboard...