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These and other cold facts about Peter Reich's father were published four years ago in a book by Ilse Ollendorff, Reich's last wife and Peter's mother. In A Book of Dreams Peter, now 29, covers some of the same ground but in an entirely different manner. His account of life with father appeals to the reader like a very private and surprisingly artful home movie. Facts are often blurred or underexposed. The plausible dissolves into the incredible. Yet the effect is undeniable: a unique re-creation of what it was like...
Rossini: The Barber of Seville (Maria Callas, Tito Gobbi, Luigi Alva, Nicola Zaccaria, Fritz Ollendorff; Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Alceo Galliera; Angel, 3 LPs). Callas' adroitly wrought Rosina strikes a precarious balance between bubbly naivetè and a subliminal Latin wisdom as shrewd as a fishwife's eye. The Callas voice is in soaring form, buttressed by Baritone Gobbi's smooth, superbly flexible rendering of the role of Figaro and Basso Zaccaria's sumptuous, tomfoolish Basilio. Conductor Galliera provides the coherence and dramatic drive necessary to Rossini's comic frenzy...
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