Word: porpora
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...Vesuvius in the background, diseases of the body, instabilities of the soul, Thanatos and Eros beating the big bass drum. One recognizes in the Magdalens and Madonnas the women that visitors like John Evelyn wrote of, "generally well-featured, but excessively libidinous." Even still lifes by artists like Paolo Porpora and Giovanni Battista Recco have the swollen intensity of painting infatuated with the surface of the world. However, Recco's picture of objects on a kitchen table, grouped around the visual pivot of a Delft dish, is so exquisitely designed and so full of severe visual rhymes and harmonies...
Radcliffe Choral Society--Beverly Taylor, conductor; music of Carpenter, Schmitt, Debussy, Porpora et al.; Paine Hall...
Critics and fellow-fiddlers have long remarked on Fritz Kreisler's predilection for obscure composers who lived in the 17th and 18th Centuries. On his programs Kreisler has appeared as an arranger of Vivaldi, Pugnani, Couperin, Porpora and a half a dozen others just as little known. But not until last week did Fritz Kreisler admit that he himself had written all the music which he had attributed to them...
...gave 50 concerts with unusual success, in Berlin had highest praise for his playing of a Beethoven concerto with the Berlin Philharmonic under Conductor Karl Muck. In Manhattan last week he gave one of 50 recitals scheduled for the U. S., played with rare skill and sensitiveness a Porpora-Mozart-Beethoven program salted with pleasant short compositions of his own. Spalding's personality as well as his playing finds favor with his audiences. He is tall, distinguished-looking, dignified. Upper-class Americans admire him because he looks so much like one of themselves. He served during...
...error of playing some pieces of little interest or musical worth. On the whole, however, his program was far better than those which one usually encounters. Beginning with a Prelude and Aria from Bach's Suite in E Minor, his selection included an excerpt from a Sonata of Porpora, short pieces of Boulanger an Suk, two of his own compositions, a Waltz of Chopin and a Jota of Sarasate. His tone was full and mellow, incisive in staccato passages and following in legato...