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Director Francesco Siciliani had combed through the composer's entire output to find six representative operas. He chose Armida (composed in 1817), Il Conte Ory (1828), Tancredi (1813), La Scala di Seta (1812), La Pietra del Paragone (1812) and William Tell (1829). Florence critics relished all of them, singled out the "scenic and choreographic spectacle" of Armida, hailed Ory as the "first musical comedy of the 19th century," called La Pietra "second only to The Barber of Seville." But the lid came off for Tell...
...order. But I doubt it. Academic chaos (necessary to some degree I assume, as long as we know less than absolute truth) begins to look like academic utopia. On the day that President Conant and General Eisenhower tune in God on their personal or university television seta, I will be mere than happy to sit at their feel and chalk "right" and "wrong" on Right and Wrong respectively. Until then I prefer to direct my alien curiosity and student naivete (not to be confined with "integrity") toward other than exclusive teaching wedded to its own conclusions. Fred L. Glimp...
Martyrs & Mistresses. Qualunquist deputies of strident Journalist Guglielmo Giannini's party shouted "Amen" and "Hooray." The Socialists cried: "Coercion . . . ecclesiastical oppression." Italy's outstanding Jewish figure, grey-bearded, shambling, 67-year-old Republican Deputy Ugo Della Seta-his whole body trembling with indignation, his-hands wildly clutching the air-shrilled: "Remember those non-Catholics who fought and died . . . who were martyred in the Ardeatine Caves! It is un-Christian to place religious minorities in a status of inferiority...
...German, he claims-Reich representative of the Italian silk firm of Seta Inc. One day the Gestapo rushed a non-Aryan friend of his into a concentration camp, and S. K. made history by getting him out. Later he got others out, with the help of a sympathetic Gestapo official and some forged steamship tickets. Then the Gestapo asked S. K. himself to drop in one afternoon...
...Jobs. He went first to Milan, hunted up his old boss, Commendatore Luigi Venturi, general manager and chief owner of the Seta Co., and head of the Fascist federation of silk factories. Said Venturi: "You have nothing to fear here. We're not barbarians like your Nazis." He gave S. K. a part-time job with Seta...