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...affirmation that he was ready to perform and influence people with his music. Koh took that charge seriously, and has performed for audiences all over the world, winning some of his craft’s top prizes and accolades. For one year, he played on a Montagnana cello that he borrowed from none other than Yo-Yo Ma ’76. Ma might have been reluctant to take it back, though: during his freshman year, Koh told the Harvard Independent’s annual sex survey that his greatest fantasy was to have sex with his cello. A native...
...demonstrated the different timbres of his two instruments—a 1712 Davidoff Stradivarius and his 1733 Montagnana cello—by playing the first movement on the Stradivarius and all six on the Montagnana...
Died. Sir Osbert Sitwell, 76, fifth baronet, illustrious man of British letters, who with his equally famed sister, Dame Edith, and brother Sacheverell, devoted a lifetime to baiting the established ideas and figures of his age while celebrating the splendor of the past; of a heart at tack; in Montagnana, Italy. "I belonged," he once wrote, "to the prewar era, a proud citizen of the great free world of 1914, in which comity prevailed." Not for him the modern age, in which "the sabre-toothed tiger and the ant are our paragons, and the butterfly is condemned for its wings...
Separated: Palmiro Togliatti, 58, Italian Communist boss, and his motherly wife, Communist Senator Rita Montagnana, after 27 years of marriage. Last year when the Togliattis left their deluxe apartment on the left bank of the Tiber, Rita went to live in Turin with their son Aldo, 26, and Palmiro moved out to a smart suburban villa in Rome. Last week they got a legal separation, which, however, does not permit them to remarry. Rumor said Togliatti might get a divorce outside Italy. The other woman: his personal secretary, buxom Communist Deputy Leonilde lotti, 31, with whom he has been keeping...
Togliatti is married to Rita Montagnana, a former seamstress, who leads Italy's Communist women and is a loyal party workhorse. She is a big, handsome, white-haired, brown-eyed woman. The Togliattis live in the sumptuous residence of a former Fascist minister, but use only a few rooms...