Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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March 19-Beginning of ten-day visit of Princes Christian Frederik, Knud and Axel of Denmark; to Japan...
Manhattan last week was prepared for a major musical event-the first U. S. visit of Ildebrando Pizzetti, famed Italian composer, and the premiere of his Rondo Veneziano to be played by Conductor Arturo Toscanini after a 13-weeks' absence from the Philharmonic-Symphony. Composer Pizzetti had been widely heralded, his coming sponsored by Conductor and Signora Toscanini, by Italian Ambassador Nobile Giacomo de Martino, Metropolitan Opera Impresario Giulio Gatti-Casazza, Mrs. Otto Hermann Kahn, Mrs. Vincent Astor, Mrs. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge. His career had been extensively reviewed: Pizzetti is Parma-born, a musical critic, director of the Milan...
...Best known in the U. S., however, is Fra Ghcrardo, for which Pizzetti wrote his own libretto. Fra Ghcrardo was produced last year at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House (TIME, April 1), will undoubtedly be revived soon in honor of Composer Pizzetti's visit...
...Cezanne and has recently kept it out of sight; naturally this can bring no great woe to Critic Cortissoz. Nor must he feel sad because the Metropolitan owns no paintings at all by Derain, Matisse, Picasso or Marie Laurencin. On the other hand, idling along its corridors, he may visit many collections greatly to his liking. There is an extensive U. S. group. The Italian collection is noteworthy, including a Tiepolo ceiling and a roomful of Primitives among which is an Aretino and a Segna di Bonaventura. There may also be seen a Fra Angelico. paintings by Carpaccio, Crivelli, Botticelli...
...recommends: Tahiti, where a month's visit is too long, a year's too short; French steamships (either the Compagnie Generale Transatlantique or the Messageries Maritimes) the native dances in Martinique; Siam, Ceylon, the lesser-known West Indies (Haiti, Dominica, Trinidad); the New Hebrides. The book is illustrated by Woodcutter Lynd Ward, author of the novel in woodcuts Gods' Man (TIME...