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Working with an Italian libretto supplied by a former pupil, Ferrari Trecate had his three-act opera written within a year. But after one quiet 1953 performance in Parma, it lay forgotten until Rome decided to produce it again. Its minor-key Italianate melodies, skillfully woven into choral passages that hint of Negro spirituals, are warm and rich in legato beauty, completely devoid of any modernisms, reminiscent of Puccini. The first-night audience in Rome greeted it with 20 curtain calls, and Roman critics pronounced it good enough for the regular repertory...
Even though Aref devotedly declared, "I am Kassem's son," and Bachelor Kassem fondly called Aref "my son, my pupil, my brother," the two chiefs were soon quarreling. Having become master of Iraq, Kassem was in no mood to share the prize with Aref's other hero, Egypt's Nasser. Ordered into exile as Ambassador to West Germany, Aref pulled a gun in Kassem's presence but was disarmed and finally condemned to death as a traitor. Kassem changed the sentence to life imprisonment and in 1961 sentimentally and imprudently set Aref free...
...show at the Guggenheim was put together mainly from the museum's own impressive collection of Kandinskys, from the Gabriele Münter Foundation of the Stadtische Galerie in Munich (which now owns the Kandinskys collected by his pupil and onetime beloved, Painter Gabriele Münter), and the collection of Nina Kandinsky, the artist's widow, who lives in France. But Director Thomas Messer pulled off an even more impressive coup of roundupmanship: with the help of Mme. Kandinsky and Paris' Musée National d'Art Moderne, he engineered delicate negotiations with Moscow, bringing...
Boules is a former pupil of Olivier Messiaen at the Paris Conservatoire...
...ranch hands and peasants in the surrounding countryside. He tripled the wages of his workers (to 12 pesos daily), built a church and model homes for his 50-man ranch crew, added a maternity clinic. Treatment is free to all local campesinos. Abuilding at La Purisima are a 70-pupil school and a drugstore where his workers will get medicines free of charge and local peasants can buy at wholesale prices...