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Debussy's La Mer by Piero Coppola and Symphony Orchestra (Victor, $5) - A valuable imported version of the subtly wrought sea sketches...
Faust, the transformation scene by Tenor Fernand Ansseau, Basso Marcel Journet and orchestra under Conductor Piero Coppola (Victor, $2.50)?Two famed French-opera singers capably interpret the scene in which Mephistopheles restores Faust to youth...
Pelléas et Mélisande by artists of the Paris Opera and Opera-Comique conducted by Piero Coppola (Victor, $10.50)?A surprisingly coherent recording of Debussy's elusive, misty music. Tenor Charles Panzera is an excellent Pelléas; Soprano Yvonne Brothier could learn much from Mary Garden, still greatest of Mélisandes...
...paintings was a Crucifixion, painted by Piero della Francesca (circa 1406-92) on a tiny wood panel (14" x 16"). Into a golden sky, grievously cracked with age, were lifted the cross, the scarlet banners of the soldiery. Humans and horses were drawn with that rude simplicity of Italian Primitives which is pronounced charming by modern sophisticates. This painting, according to gallery officials, had been appraised by experts at $800,000. The other, a similarly styled Madonna and Child by Fra Filippo Lippi (circa 1406-69), was said to have been appraised...
These admonitions, although obviously unenforceable, in the legal sense, were backed by a covering letter in which Signor Piero Parini, Secretary General of Foreign Fascist Organizations, declared: "The word of Il Duce is a commandment which admits neither of glossing over nor of interpretations of any sort...