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...public Puccini was not the whole man, as Marek and others have shown. As a child, he lived with his widowed mother and seven brothers and sisters in harsh poverty. His father, one of a long line of musicians, had been a church organist, but Giacomo started studying organ with little enthusiasm ("Your son," said an early teacher to his mother, "is meat which does not wish to be salted"). In time he showed a talent for composition, was shipped off on a scholarship to the Milan Conservatory. He was a good but not brilliant student. After graduation he stayed...
Chamber music concerts will commence next Monday with Norma Sapp in Sanders at 8:30 P.M. Frequent organ recitals will also be available...
...most passionate outbursts, because they came from those who still wanted to believe in a U.S.S.R. change of heart, occurred among the neutralist powers and Europe's left-wing fringe. Avanti, organ of Pietro Nenni's red-tinged Italian Socialist Party, proclaimed that the executions "bring us back in full bloom" to the era of Stalinism. Burma's Premier U Nu called them "a horrible act." The Indonesian Socialist daily Pedoman drew a local moral: "We cannot fool around with the idea of cooperation with the Reds." In India, where Nehru's equivocation blunted the impact...
...Peter, who hangs it in the sky to light "the men who still wait in the little garden of the earth." The fragmented, intermittently lyrical score contains snatches of gutbucket jazz and such unorthodox sonorities as a chorus singing through megaphones, a shrieking oscillator, an accompaniment of organ, harmonium, piano, celesta and wind machine. This occasionally blurred performance has its strongly moving moments, but many listeners may feel that Composer Orff's moon has set before it has fairly risen...
...staged last week in St. Bartholomew's nave, Fludde opened with a roll of drums and a booming threat of destruction from God: "I see my people in deede and thoughte are sette full fowle in synne!" (God, unfortunately visible behind the organ, was a large fat man in a blue lounge suit.) While Noah and his sons built an ark (it was carried onstage by an assortment of blue-smocked prop men), Mrs. Noah stood aside and jeered (moaned Noah: "Lord that wemen be crabbed ay!"). The "animals"-a chorus of 70 children-marched two by two into...