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Concert revivals of Poppea have been used to striking effect, but Dallas tried to preserve the late-Renaissance splendor of the original production. If most of the opening-night Texans agreed with Dallas Times Herald Music Critic Eugene Lewis, who wrote "Puccini it isn't," some of them also realized that without Monteverdi, Puccini might never have been...
...Walks in Splendor" is an exhibit of luxurious costumes created by famous couturiers over the last five centuries. The collection starts in the 1500's with Queen Elizabeth's waistcoat, then skips to an excellent eighteenth century array...
Elegance & Splendor. Boston's Museum of Fine Arts could illustrate many of these theses from its superb collection of some 2,000 costumes, one of the finest in the world. It was assembled during the past 80-odd years by a number of donors, but the best of the clothes were given by a dedicated spinster, the late Elizabeth Day McCormick of Chicago (granddaughter of Reaper Tycoon Cyrus McCormick), who ranged Europe and the U.S., skimping on taxis and her own clothes, to buy a total of some 20,000 costumes, pieces of embroidery, books and prints...
Titled "She Walks in Splendor," and covering the years 1550-1950, the exhibition was assembled, in the words of Textiles Curator Adolph S. Cavallo, to demonstrate visual beauty, which "in the world of the costume artist becomes a quality that can best be described as elegance or splendor...
...long last, the U.S. woman is joining the rest of the world. The curved curple is In, and the monobuttock is on its way to a new divisive splendor. First evidence was the recent popularity of stretch pants and tight slacks, which were obviously wasted if what they stretched or were tight over was not the real personality of the wearer. The final nudge is the new fashions. "Last year's girdle won't properly fill out this year's dress," says Executive Vice President Walter A. Schieman of Peter Pan Foundations Inc. And Formfit is feeling...