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Lowell House Music Society--Cellist Paul Tobias plays Beethoven, Barber, Debussy and Valentini. At Lowell JCR at 4:30 p.m. Free...
Cenerentola is less popular than Rossini's The Barber of Seville, probably because of its emphasis on bravura ensemble work over traditional solo arias. Further, the title role is written for an almost extinct species, the coloratura contralto. La Scala has such a rara avis in Lucia Valentini Terrani. She really has too hefty a look for an ideal Cinderella, but her voice was lusciously bronze and agile. The production is by France's Jean-Pierre Ponnelle; within a delightful children's cutout house, he manipulates his characters like a swinging Coppelius. How, for example, Soprano Margherita...
...James Sheldon Carey, 47, keeps so busy teaching 100 ceramics students at the University of. Kansas that his own pottery has become almost a Sunday hobby. His heavily textured urn, a $100 prizewinner, is both modest and forceful, both earthy and alert looking. ¶ Italy's Giovan Battista Valentini, 27, gives "no special value" to his $250 prizewinner. "Like others I do, it is made the same way as in Homer's time." With its squared-off underside, made possible by stoneware's hard-baked solidity, the bowl has a look of energy held in suspension like...
...class Flaminia district, was in the driver's stand of the blue-and-white chariot of the Christian Democratic newspaper La Liberta. Handling the whip of the bright red chariot sponsored by the Communist L'Unitá and the poverty-ridden San Lorenzo district was oldtimer Amedeo Valentini, who drove a chariot in the movie Ben Hur 25 years...
There were seven other entries in the race, which was run off in several heats. Both Gigli and Valentini won their trial heats, though the pro-Communist charioteer was booed when he zigzagged to block all attempts at passing. The third trial heat was won by a sporting newspaper, Corriere dello Sport. In the final runoff, L'Unitá's Valentini minded his charioteer's manners-and came in third. Winner of the 150,000-lire ($240) prize: Gigli and La Liberta...