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...stadiums that can hold enough people to permit a take between $15,000 and $20,000 for each concert. His other plans are grandly hazy. He is tempted by a $250,000 offer to tour in Argentina. He sometimes speaks vaguely of accepting an offer to appear at Milan's famed La Scala, where he would like to sing Andrea Chenier, one of the twelve operatic roles he has learned. He is even vaguer about the great day when he may be ready to sing at the Met (top fee: $1,000 a performance...
...Italy last week, the Russians were all over the place. Ballerina Galina Ulanova (TIME, June 25) had another frantic success at Milan's La Scala. Romans were astonished at the formidable power and technique of Pianist Emil Ghilels, 35. And in Florence for the first time, an audience of 2,700 heard a 42-year-old violinist, now rated the equal of Heifetz, Menuhin, Szigeti and Milstein. His name: David Oistrakh...
...fellow Italians like his delicacy and deftness. This week two exhibitions of De Pisis' graceful still lifes, on-the-wing landscapes and gentle portraits were showing simultaneously in Milan and his home town of Ferrara. On view in Rome was his sensitive portrait of French Novelist Colette, which had won him a million-lire Premio Roma...
These days, however, De Pisis is no longer the eccentric Venetian man-about-town. Thin and aged beyond his years, he lives at a sanitarium outside Milan, for the past three years the victim of recurrent nervous disorders. He uses a cobweb-festooned greenhouse on the grounds as his studio. On favorable days when "the light is calm," he arranges still lifes of wild flowers, cherries, beans, clusters of garlic or withered leaves on a potting table, paints them against imaginary landscapes in paler, more wistful colors than his old gay studies of Venice and France. "They are a little...
...Martini Toscanini, 73, wife of the famed conductor and one of the musical world's "most important second fiddles," who for 54 selfless years cut the Maestro's hair, cooked for him, attended to all the daily drudgeries which he hated; of a heart attack; in Milan, Italy...