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Like smart young Composer Gian-Carlo (The Medium) Menotti (TIME, March 3), Britten has written for a small cast and a chamber orchestra so that his opera can be performed easily and often. His newest music is easier to listen to than to sing. Said Baritone Frank Rogier, who sang the role of Seducer Tarquinius: "Any time you sound in tune with the orchestra, you're off. So you go in the other direction." But Britten's insistent, subtle use of rhythmic and dissonant backgrounds put a wallop into Librettist Ronald Duncan's seething play. The opera...
...robberies of modern times discovered. Most valuable of the ten stolen paintings were an "Annunciation" by Fra Angelico, a "Christ's Ascension" by Peter Paul Rubens. Most embarrassing loss was a "Judith" by Lucas Cranach, lent to the Museum by Sculptor Carl Milles. The other seven were a Rogier van der Weyden, a Sir Thomas Lawrence, a Romney. Van Dyck, Jean Fouquet. Francois Clouet and Bernardino Luini. Eight were from the Friedsam collection. The Van Dyck was 2 ft. by 1 1/2 ft. The rest were all about half as large, easy to handle. Total value: about...
...works of art loaned and exhibited for periods ranging from one week to six months were: Tintoretto, "Diana"; Piero Della Francesca, "Crucifixion"; Pesellino, "Building of the Temple"; Fra Filippo Lippi, "Madonna and Child"; Turner, "Pas de Calais"; Byzantine panel, 13th century, "Scenes from Life of St. Peter"; Rogier van der Weyden, "Noli me tangere"; Lucas Cranach, "Lady in Red Gown"; Filippino Lippi, "Descent from the Cross"; Moretto da Brescia, "The Magdalen"; 16th century Flemish pictures, "Annunciation," and "Crucifixion"; Dutch pictures, Rembrandt, "St. Bartholomew," Franz Hals, "Portrait of a Man Seated," David Teniers, the Younger, "The Five Senses," Girolamo da Santa...
...Fogg Museum has received from an anonymous lender the loan of a large and beautiful picture by Rogier Van der Weyden, the great Flemish master of the fifteenth century, whose works are so rare and so much valued. It will be on exhibition until Wednesday. The subject is "Noll me tangere." The picture has been placed in the gallery beside the diptych attributed to the same artist, which is one of the most important pictures in the permanent collection at the museum...
...color scheme. They were published under the guidance of Professor Pol de Mont, director of the Royal Museum at Antwerp. Among them are such masterpieces as Hubert van Eyck's "Madonna in a Church," Jan van Eyck's Triptych of the "Madonna with St. Michael and St. Katherine," Rogier van der Weyden's "young Patrician Lady," and Quenten Metsys's "Mary Magdalen...