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...Best known as the U.S.'s No. 1 music patron (the Coolidge Auditorium of the Library of Congress, the Coolidge String Quartet...
Since the pictures were about work, Patron Verzocchi wanted to make sure that the worker got a chance to see them. He had chartered a train to carry 600 employees from his brickworks in La Spezia to the show. When it closes in October, Verzocchi intends to send the show on tour, later give most of the pictures to Italian factories to be hung in workers' canteens...
...with little more success, he decided to take his music at one remove, pay for it rather than make it himself.' Today, after 40 years of footing bills, 70-year-old Count Chigi-Saracini has a good claim to the title of Italy's No. 1 music patron. The slim, white-haired nobleman has remodeled his vast, 800-year-old palazzo in Siena to house a concert hall and theater, gathered together one of Europe's finest music libraries. On the count's payroll are the topnotch Siena quintet (now known as the Quintette Chigiana...
Sitting among his stone giants last week, Josef Thorak was asked what he thought of his old patron's taste in art. "He understood me," said Thorak finally, "and if what I do is art, he understood...
...paintings are very carefully selected," Coolidge said, "and the collection, though recent, is of a consistently high level." Wertheim has long been a patron of the Fogg Museum, and this collection was exhibited in 1946 at Fogg...