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...Knees. Soprano Tynes, 29, flew to New York last spring from Milan, where she was studying voice, to audition for Schippers. After listening to her and looking at her small, shapely figure ("Rarely." wrote an Italian critic, "have we seen a physique so perfectly adapted to the role"), Schippers announced: "This is Salome." The daughter of a clergyman, Tynes studied at Juilliard, sang with the New York City Opera and on television before settling in Italy. For a while, the idea of playing Salome disturbed her. Even after the opening night performance, she knelt down in her dressing room...
...Florence for "reprehensible conduct." In more sober moods he reputedly wrote 100 operas, many of them tradition-breaking efforts that helped determine the shape of opera to come. Last week the first, and one of the best, of Cesti's works, his three-act Orontea, was back in Milan after an absence of 300 years. It still looked fresh enough, enthused Milan's Il Giorno, "to teach today's composers how an opera should be written...
...program made a pass at traditional music (an opera by Prokofiev, piano works by Debussy and Ravel), but the score card was overwhelmingly modern: a sampling of contemporary Italian music played by the Milan Radio Orchestra, a concert of atonal chamber works by France's Parrenin Quartet, an opera by Germany's Werner Egk. The tone of the festival reflected Tito's promise of a free hand, but Chief Organizer Milko Keleman, 37, an instructor in composition at Zagreb Conservatory, was understandably anxious when Cultural Relations Commissar Drago Vucinic showed up for a concert of electronic works...
...critic of Milan's Corriere della Sera sat down in shock and bewilderment to write a review of the wildest exhibition he had ever seen. It consisted, said he, of the "maddest coloristic orgy, the most insane eccentricities, the most macabre fantasies, all the drunken foolishness possible or imaginable." That was the general reaction a few years before World War I to a group of Italian rebels who called themselves futurists. This week 129 of their works went on display at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art in the first comprehensive exhibit of futurism ever held...
...next volumes will range from Assyria to the post-Carolingian art that flourished around Autun; by the time the $7,000,000 project is complete, virtually every place and period will have been covered. With six publishing houses in various countries involved, each volume will appear in Paris, Milan, Madrid, Munich, London, New York and eventually Tokyo. For Sumer, Malraux himself chose the 557 black-and-white and color illustrations, often sending photographers back to shoot a particular work for a second time. Once Malraux was satisfied, the photographs were dispatched to the various publishers in specially upholstered, hermetically sealed...