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...anyway, learning to lip-read and talk. Bucky, however, was a hopeless case. When he was six, Beverly made the excruciating decision to put him in the same institution in Massachusetts where Peter's retarded daughter was already lodged. On the same day, she sang all three heroines in Puccini's trio of one-act operas, Il Trittico, at the City Opera. Says Director Frank Corsaro: "It was the only hysterical performance I have ever seen her give." Since then, says Rudel, "she has matured so greatly. While basically she has not changed, she has become much more profound...
...music proved typical of Villa-Lobos' best work: brooding, feverish, full of exotic percussion effects. Conductor Christopher Keene admitted, "It's got a little Stravinsky, a little Debussy, a little Puccini, a little Richard Strauss -but a lot of Villa-Lobos." It sometimes sounded as attractive as the familiar pieces: Forest of the Amazon or the Bachianas Brasileiras...
...Metropolitan Opera for the past half-century; of a heart attack suffered while conducting Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice; in Athens. Cleva's career got off to an auspicious start when the maestro who was scheduled to lead a 1920 performance in Ravenna, Italy, of Puccini's The Girl of the Golden West suddenly quit; the opera manager asked where he could find a substitute at the last minute. "Here's your man," said Puccini, pointing to 18-year-old Cleva, who had been conducting during rehearsals. Cleva eventually became a stalwart...
...rubbled Berlin to become an international star -for the U.S. a sexy fraulein figure renamed Hildegarde Neff, for Germany a second and more controversial Dietrich. And here it is: the expectable show biz autobiography. But not the predictable boredom: The Gift Horse sold 300,000 copies in Germany. Like Puccini's Tosca, Hilde Knef has lived for art and love, but like Brecht's Ginny Jenny she now casts a cold eye on her follies and grandeur. Don't expect gossip, though. Knef writes as she acts, with reckless vitality, and her book has all the choke...
...going to invoke Puccini in "Ping Pong and Reality" [April 26], you might point out that between Ping and Pong, the maestro had another character, Pang. The three were always together, I don't think you can present Ping and Pong without a Pang. And we'd better all watch out for the Pangs...