Word: nessie
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Pio Baroja y Nessi, 83, famed old dragon of Spanish literature (The Struggle for Life, Youth and Egolatry), whose bitter, free-thinking attacks on church and state kept him in hot water, and whose hard-scratch realism in more than 100 novels made him a candidate (1946) for the Nobel Prize; in Madrid. A lifelong bachelor (he thought Spanish women were churchbound, thus intellectually inferior), Don Pio practiced medicine less than two years, ran a bakery with his brother, job-hunted across Europe, finally took up writing ("a means of living without a livelihood"). His harsh, simply written novels...
Verdi: Falstaff (Giuseppe Taddei, baritone; Saturno Meletti, baritone; Emilio Renzi, tenor; Gino Del Signore, tenor; Giuseppe Nessi, tenor; Cristiano Dalla Mangas, bass; Rosanna Carteri, soprano; Lina Pagliughi, soprano; Anna Maria Canali, mezzo-soprano; Amalia Pini, mezzo-soprano; orchestra and chorus of Radio Italiana, Mario Rossi conducting; Cetra-Soria, 6 sides LP). This is a slightly different Falstaff from the one NBC listeners have just heard from Arturo Toscanini (TIME, April 10). Orchestrally, it lacks the carefulness and cleanness of Toscanini's performance, and Conductor Rossi allows his singers, all excellent, more swagger and sway. But stylistically...
Verdi: Excerpts from Falstaff (Mariano Stabile, baritone; Afro Poli, baritone; Vittoria Palombini, mezzo-soprano; Giuseppe Nessi, tenor; Luciano Donaggio, bass; La Scala Orchestra, Alberto Erede conducting; Capitol-Telefunken; 6 sides). Baritone Stabile, now 61, was the best Falstaff in the business when these recordings were originally made before World War II. Capitol's repressing job is good...
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